Chaudhuri, K orcid.org/0000-0002-7492-1369 and Howley, P orcid.org/0000-0002-3385-629X (2022) The Impact of COVID-19 Vaccination for Mental Health. European Economic Review, 150. 104293. ISSN 0014-2921
Abstract
We examine the impact of vaccination against Covid-19 for mental health. Our estimates suggest that vaccination led to a significant and substantive improvement in mental health. These positive impacts were however concentrated on those most at risk of hospitalisation and death from Covid-19, namely older and clinically vulnerable groups. Our proposed explanation is that in the absence of vaccination, anxiety about contracting COVID-19 has a deleterious impact on the mental health of this cohort. On the other hand, vaccination was much less impactful for the mental health of those least at risk from Covid-19. This may help to explain vaccine hesitancy amongst young people. For this group, a lack of uptake may be principally due to a lack of perceived benefits (and indeed perceived costs) for their own well-being as opposed to vaccine hesitancy.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
Keywords: | Covid-19; Mental well-being; Vaccination; Propensity score matching |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Economics Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 26 Sep 2022 14:23 |
Last Modified: | 30 Jan 2023 11:23 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2022.104293 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:191262 |