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55. This Vaccine Lottery Seemed Like a Great Idea. Why Didn’t it Work?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Are You Offering Money for Covert Vaccinations?

For the older people in our sample, offers of money actually seemed to backfire and reduce significantly the share of them that got vaccinated over the next 30 days. The few who remained unvaccinated at this point were the ones who had really, really strong beliefs when it came to covet they had some story in their head as to why they shouldn't get vaccinated. That made them double down even more and say, ye i was right not to get vaccinated. It strikes me that it could have these down stream effects that could cond of last for a long time. When we're think about things like vaccine hesitancy, why is polio now emerging again?

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