The impact of COVID-19 vaccination for mental well-being.

Covid-19 Mental well-being Propensity score matching Vaccination

Journal

European economic review
ISSN: 0014-2921
Titre abrégé: Eur Econ Rev
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101085045

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Nov 2022
Historique:
received: 16 11 2021
revised: 14 09 2022
accepted: 14 09 2022
pubmed: 4 10 2022
medline: 4 10 2022
entrez: 3 10 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

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.

Identifiants

pubmed: 36188054
doi: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2022.104293
pii: S0014-2921(22)00177-5
pmc: PMC9514003
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

104293

Informations de copyright

© 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

None to declare.

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Auteurs

Kausik Chaudhuri (K)

Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, Leeds, United Kingdom.

Peter Howley (P)

Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, Leeds, United Kingdom.

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