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How does the vaccine approval procedure affect COVID-19 vaccination intentions?


ABSTRACT: People's willingness to vaccinate is critical to combating the COVID-19 pandemic. We devise a representative experiment to study how the design of the vaccine approval procedure affects trust in newly developed vaccines and consequently public attitudes towards vaccination. Compared to an Emergency Use Authorization, choosing the more thorough Conditional Marketing Authorization approval procedure increases vaccination intentions by 13 percentage points. The effects of the increased duration of the approval procedure are positive and significant only for Emergency Use Authorization. Treatment effects do not differ between relevant subgroups, such as respondents who had (did not have) COVID-19, or between vaccinated and unvaccinated respondents. Increased trust in the vaccine is the key mediator of treatment effects on vaccination intentions.

SUBMITTER: Angerer S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10246308 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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How does the vaccine approval procedure affect COVID-19 vaccination intentions?

Angerer Silvia S   Glätzle-Rützler Daniela D   Lergetporer Philipp P   Rittmannsberger Thomas T  

European economic review 20230607


People's willingness to vaccinate is critical to combating the COVID-19 pandemic. We devise a representative experiment to study how the design of the vaccine approval procedure affects trust in newly developed vaccines and consequently public attitudes towards vaccination. Compared to an <i>Emergency Use Authorization</i>, choosing the more thorough <i>Conditional Marketing Authorization</i> approval procedure increases vaccination intentions by 13 percentage points. The effects of the increase  ...[more]

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