Education and vaccine hesitancy: evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic

Publication type

Journal Article

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Publication date

July 1, 2024

Summary:

We estimate the influence of education on vaccine hesitancy focusing on the Covid-19 pandemic. To address the bias arising from the endogeneity of education, we leverage the variation introduced by an extension in school-leaving age that took place in the UK in 1972 and employ a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. We find evidence that an additional year of schooling decreases Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy.

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Economics Letters

Volume

Volume: 240:111768

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111768

ISSN

1651765

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Under a Creative Commons license

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