%0 Report
        %A Karaivanov, Alexander
%A Kim, Dongwoo
%A Lu, Shih En
%A Shigeoka, Hitoshi
        %T COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake
        %D 2021
        %8 2021 Dec
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 14946
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp14946
        %X We evaluate the impact of government mandated proof of vaccination requirements for access to public venues and non-essential businesses on COVID-19 vaccine uptake. We find that the announcement of a mandate is associated with a rapid and significant surge in new vaccinations (more than 60% increase in weekly first doses) using the variation in the timing of these measures across Canadian provinces in a differencein-differences approach. Time-series analysis for each province and for France, Italy and Germany corroborates this finding, and we estimate cumulative gains of up to 5 percentage points in provincial vaccination rates and 790,000 or more first doses for Canada as a whole as of October 31, 2021 (5 to 13 weeks after the provincial mandate announcements). We also find large vaccination gains in France (3 to 5 mln first doses), Italy (around 6 mln) and Germany (around 3.5 mln) 11 to 16 weeks after the proof of vaccination mandate announcements.
        %K difference-in-differences
%K vaccine hesitancy
%K vaccine uptake
%K proof of vaccination
%K vaccine mandates
%K COVID-19
%K time-series analysis
%K counterfactuals