A shot at winning $1 million did nothing to budge the number of people who got the COVID-19 jab.
“It’s possible that the group that you’re trying to convince to get vaccinated is not convinced that they want the vaccine at all,” said researcher Andrew Friedson, an associate professor of economics at the University of Colorado in Denver.
“Maybe they’ve been subject to some incorrect information with regard to the dangers of vaccines or with regard to the benefits of vaccines, and then unless you’re able to adjust their beliefs, no incentive is going to make a difference,” he said.
For the study, Friedson and his colleagues looked at the number of COVID-19 vaccinations given per 1,000 people before and after the lotteries were announced.
The researchers compared that data to the number of COVID-19 vaccines given in states that did not offer prize incentives.
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