Vaccine Hesitancy: Exploring the Role of Temporal and Cross-country Variation in COVID Rules, Vaccine Media Coverage, and Public Health Policy Consistency
Summary
Investigating the factors that determine whether and how quickly individuals were willing to get the COVID-19 vaccination. We leverage variation, over time, within and across sixteen countries, in COVID vaccination policies, media coverage of the vaccines, and policy stances of public health authorities. We will link the policies to individual panel data and exploit the substantial temporal and geographic variation, in and across countries, to explain who did or did not get the vaccine.