Scientific evidence regularly guides policy decisions, with behavioural science increasingly
part of this process. In April 2020, an influential paper proposed 19 policy recommendations …

Financial incentives to encourage healthy and prosocial behaviours often trigger initial
behavioural change,,,,,,,,,–, but a large academic literature warns against using them …

Financial incentives are a controversial strategy for increasing vaccination. In this systematic
review, we evaluated: 1) the effects of incentives on COVID-19 vaccinations; 2) whether …

Introduction Although vaccination is the most effective way to limit and overcome the COVID-
19 pandemic, a considerable fraction of them are not intended to get vaccinated. This study …

We find that Ohio's “Vax-a-Million” lottery increased first-dose COVID-19 vaccinations by
between 50,000 and 100,000, with most of the additional doses occurring during the two …

Willingness to vaccinate and test are critical in the COVID-19 pandemic. We study the effects
of two measures to increase the support of vaccination and testing: defaults and monetary …

Overcoming vaccine hesitancy is critical to containing the COVID-19 pandemic in the United
States. To increase vaccination rates, the State of Ohio launched a million dollar lottery in …

We examine the relationship between cognitive ability and prompt COVID-19 vaccination
using individual-level data on more than 700,000 individuals in Sweden. We find a strong …

Social and behavioral science research proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic,
reflecting the substantial increase in influence of behavioral science in public health and …

Less than 30% of people in Africa received a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine even 18 months
after vaccine development. Here, motivated by the observation that residents of remote, rural …