Motivating vaccination with financial incentives

Pol Campos-Mercade; Armando N Meier; Devin Pope; Florian H Schneider

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2023.07.003

Motivating vaccination with financial incentives

Trends Cogn Sci. 2023 Dec;27(12):1099-1101. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.07.003. Epub 2023 Sep 14.

Authors

Pol Campos-Mercade¹, Armando N Meier², Devin Pope³, Florian H Schneider⁴

Affiliations

¹ Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm, Sweden. Electronic address: pol.campos@nek.lu.se.
² Unisanté & Lausanne Center for Health Economics, Behavior, and Policy (LCHE), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Electronic address: armando.meier@unil.ch.
³ University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, USA; National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, USA. Electronic address: devin.pope@chicagobooth.edu.
⁴ Department of Economics and Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI), University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; CESifo, Munich, Germany. Electronic address: flsc@econ.ku.dk.

PMID: 37716894
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.07.003

Abstract

Governments and organizations often offer cash payments for vaccination. How effective are such payments? A literature review shows that incentives usually increase vaccination, especially for nonhesitant populations and when using guaranteed payments. Concerns about negative unintended consequences are unsupported. We also discuss open questions and avenues for future research.

Keywords: financial incentives; immunization; unintended consequences; vaccination incentives; vaccine hesitancy.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Humans
Motivation*
Vaccination*