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Quantifying the Impact of Public Perceptions on Vaccine Acceptance Using Behavioral Economics.

The main character of 2020 was, without any doubt, the pandemic that affected millions of people around the world, caused by the coronavirus. Nowadays, we can say, at last, that we’re leaving that dark episode of history behind, thanks to the effort of hundreds of scientists that have developed in these past few months, vaccines to immunize population. But are we all willing to accept the vaccine? What does the decision of getting the vaccine depend on? Authors of this study use empirical behavioral economics’ procedures to shed some light to the question. ….[READ]