State-led vaccine lotteries were ineffective, study shows
State-led vaccine lotteries didn't boost vaccination rates, study shows
Oct 16, 2021 by Moneywatch - CBSNews.com
Key Facts
- A variety of prizes — — were dangled in front of vaccine holdouts to try to incentivize more Americans to get jabbed and better control the virus as vaccination rates plateaued in May.
- "This looked like a really exciting policy that we were really rooting for when we saw lotteries come out and it's frankly disappointing we weren't able to find any evidence they were capable of moving the needle in this respect," Andrew Friedson, a professor of economics at the University of Colorado Denver and a co-author of the study "Association Between Statewide COVID-19 Lottery Announcements and Vaccinations," told CBS MoneyWatch.
- "It is possible that lottery incentives are not concrete enough and people may react better to cash in hand versus the abstract chance you might win," he explained.
- According to Friedson, it's time to move on from tying vaccines to lotteries, if the goal is to encourage more Americans to become inoculated against COVID-19.
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