TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Karaivanov, Alexander
AU  - Kim, Dongwoo
AU  - Lu, Shih En
AU  - Shigeoka, Hitoshi
        TI  - COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake
        PY  - 2021/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14946
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp14946
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - difference-in-differences
KW  - vaccine hesitancy
KW  - vaccine uptake
KW  - proof of vaccination
KW  - vaccine mandates
KW  - COVID-19
KW  - time-series analysis
KW  - counterfactuals
        ER  -