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Martin Abel1, Tanya Byker2, Jeffrey Carpenter3
1Department of Economics, Bowdoin College, JPAL and IZA, Brunswick, Maine, USA.
Abstract:
This study experimentally tests the impact of providing information about vaccine safety and efficacy delivered by Black health care professionals. We find that providing general information increases vaccination rates after 5 months by 8 percentage points (17%), driven by a 9.8 pp (24%) increase among white participants. Political affiliation emerges as a key moderator to explain this discordant effect. Across race, general information is more effective for politically moderate and conservative respondents, most of whom are white. Among this most vaccine-hesitant group, the information effectively addresses concerns about both side effects and unknown long-run effects due to the fast approval of the vaccine, increasing vaccination rates by 14 pp.
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