In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, we develop and test experimentally three phone-based interventions to increase vaccine acceptance in Mozambique. The first endorses the vaccine with a simple positive message. The second adds the activation of social memory on the country’s success in eradicating wild polio with vaccination campaigns. The third further adds a structured interaction with the participant t...
Funding Information: We thank the editor, two referees, as well as seminar and conference participants at DENeB (Berlin), IFPRI, NEUDC-Dartmouth, Alicante, Ca’ Foscari, Paris School of Economics, Paris-Dauphine, Milan-Bicocca, and NOVAFRICA for useful comments. We are grateful to a large number of individuals who have made this project possible. First of all, we thank Helena Areal, Patrícia Carvalho, and Patríc...
Publisher Copyright: © 2021, The Author(s).; Widespread acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines is crucial for achieving sufficient immunization coverage to end the global pandemic, yet few studies have investigated COVID-19 vaccination attitudes in lower-income countries, where large-scale vaccination is just beginning. We analyze COVID-19 vaccine acceptance across 15 survey samples covering 10 low- and middle-income ...