Education and vaccine hesitancy: evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic
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Author(s)
Kountouris, Yiannis
Remoundou, Kyriaki
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
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.
Date Issued
2024-07
Date Acceptance
2024-05-21
Citation
Economics Letters, 2024, 240
ISSN
0165-1765
Publisher
Elsevier
Journal / Book Title
Economics Letters
Volume
240
Copyright Statement
© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111768
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
111768
Date Publish Online
2024-05-23