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Financial incentives to encourage healthy and prosocial behaviours often trigger initial behavioural change^1–11^, but a large academic literature warns against using them^12–16^. Critics warn that financial incentives can crowd out prosocial motivations and reduce perceived safety and trust, thereby reducing healthy behaviours when no payments are offered and eroding morals more generally^17–24^. Here we report findings from a large-scale, pre-registered study in Sweden that causally measures the unintended consequences of offering financial incentives for taking the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. We use a unique combination of random exposure to financial incentives, population-wide administrative vaccination records and rich survey data. We find no negative consequences of financial incentives; we can reject even small negative impacts of offering financial incentives on future vaccination uptake, morals, trust and perceived safety. In a complementary study, we find that informing US residents about the existence of state incentive programmes also has no negative consequences. Our findings inform not only the academic debate on financial incentives for behaviour change but al

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Author

Florian H. Schneider; Pol Campos-Mercade; Stephan Meier; Devin Pope; Erik Wengström; Armando N. Meier

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group UK

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)