Psychic vs. Economic Barriers to Vaccine Take-Up : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria

This paper experimentally evaluates the relative importance of psychic costs of tetanus vaccination compared to monetary costs among women in rural Nigeria. To measure psychic costs, vaccine take-up between two conditions to receive cash incentives...

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Main Authors:	Sato, Ryoko, Takasaki, Yoshito
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	VACCINATION BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS PSYCHIC COSTS MONETARY COSTS PRIMING TETANUS CASH INCENTIVES
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/876061519138798752/Psychic-vs-economic-barriers-to-vaccine-take-up-evidence-from-a-field-experiment-in-Nigeria http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29407

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spelling	okr-10986-294072021-06-08T14:42:48Z Psychic vs. Economic Barriers to Vaccine Take-Up : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria Sato, Ryoko Takasaki, Yoshito VACCINATION BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS PSYCHIC COSTS MONETARY COSTS PRIMING TETANUS CASH INCENTIVES This paper experimentally evaluates the relative importance of psychic costs of tetanus vaccination compared to monetary costs among women in rural Nigeria. To measure psychic costs, vaccine take-up between two conditions to receive cash incentives is compared: clinic attendance vs. vaccine take-up. Because the only difference between these two conditions is whether a woman was required to receive a vaccine upon arrival at the clinic, the difference in clinic attendance between these two groups captures the psychic costs of vaccination. Contrary to conventional wisdom, no evidence for significant psychic costs is found. Priming about disease severity increases the perceived severity of disease, but not vaccine take-up. Monetary costs strongly affect vaccination decisions. 2018-02-28T22:30:23Z 2018-02-28T22:30:23Z 2018-02 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/876061519138798752/Psychic-vs-economic-barriers-to-vaccine-take-up-evidence-from-a-field-experiment-in-Nigeria http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29407 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8347 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Nigeria
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description	This paper experimentally evaluates the relative importance of psychic costs of tetanus vaccination compared to monetary costs among women in rural Nigeria. To measure psychic costs, vaccine take-up between two conditions to receive cash incentives is compared: clinic attendance vs. vaccine take-up. Because the only difference between these two conditions is whether a woman was required to receive a vaccine upon arrival at the clinic, the difference in clinic attendance between these two groups captures the psychic costs of vaccination. Contrary to conventional wisdom, no evidence for significant psychic costs is found. Priming about disease severity increases the perceived severity of disease, but not vaccine take-up. Monetary costs strongly affect vaccination decisions.
format	Working Paper
author	Sato, Ryoko Takasaki, Yoshito
author_facet	Sato, Ryoko Takasaki, Yoshito
author_sort	Sato, Ryoko
title	Psychic vs. Economic Barriers to Vaccine Take-Up : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria
title_short	Psychic vs. Economic Barriers to Vaccine Take-Up : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria
title_full	Psychic vs. Economic Barriers to Vaccine Take-Up : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria
title_fullStr	Psychic vs. Economic Barriers to Vaccine Take-Up : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria
title_full_unstemmed	Psychic vs. Economic Barriers to Vaccine Take-Up : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria
title_sort	psychic vs. economic barriers to vaccine take-up : evidence from a field experiment in nigeria
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2018
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/876061519138798752/Psychic-vs-economic-barriers-to-vaccine-take-up-evidence-from-a-field-experiment-in-Nigeria http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29407
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Psychic vs. Economic Barriers to Vaccine Take-Up : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria

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