New NOVAFRICA Working Paper: “Let’s Call! Using the Phone to Increase Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccines”

A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series. Written by Alex Armand, Mattia Fracchia, and Pedro Vicente this paper develops and tests experimentally three phone-based cumulative interventions to increase COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in Mozambique. First, the provision of a simple positive message informing about these vaccines.

Title: Let’s Call! Using the Phone to Increase Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccines

Authors:
Alex Armand (Nova School of Business and Economics, CEPR, IFS and NOVAFRICA)
Mattia Fracchia (Nova School of Business and Economics, and NOVAFRICA)
Pedro Vicente (Nova School of Business and Economics, NOVAFRICA and BREAD)

Abstract:
Vaccinating against COVID-19 is the main hope to end the current pandemic. We develop and test experimentally three phone-based cumulative interventions to increase COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in Mozambique.
First, the provision of a simple positive message informing about these vaccines. Second, the activation of social memory on the country’s success in eradicating wild polio. Finally, the inoculation against fake news by developing among participants a critical view towards misleading information. We find that the combination of the three interventions increases COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and trust in institutions.

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