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

Yiannis Kountouris; Kyriaki Remoundou

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111768

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

Yiannis Kountouris^*, Kyriaki Remoundou

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Aberystwyth Business School

Imperial College London

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	111768
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	240
Early online date	05 Jun 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111768
Publication status	Published - 01 Jul 2024

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Covid-19
Pro-social returns to education
Schooling and health behavior
Vaccine hesitancy

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