Journal Article

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

By Yiannis Kountouris and Kyriaki Remoundou

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Publication date
Published in
Economics Letters
Volume
240:111768
Publisher
Elsevier
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111768
ISSN
1651765

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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