Publication: Social norms, political polarization, and vaccination attitudes: evidence from a survey experiment in Turkey
dc.contributor.coauthor | Koyuncu, Murat | |
dc.contributor.coauthor | Schneider, Sebastian O. | |
dc.contributor.coauthor | Sutter, Matthias | |
dc.contributor.department | Department of Economics | |
dc.contributor.kuauthor | Kaba, Mustafa | |
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstitute | College of Administrative Sciences and Economics | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-12-29T09:37:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper examines vaccination as a descriptive social norm in the context of the Covid19 pandemic. Using a large-scale survey experiment in Turkey, we first elicit respondents' vaccination attitudes and show that political affiliation is a strong predictor of it. We then use economic games to measure the extent of outgroup discrimination induced by respondents' attitudes towards vaccination. We find that while both pro- and anti-vaxxers discriminate against each other substantially, the pro-vaxxers discriminate more than the anti-vaxxers do. This polarization intensifies when pro- and anti-vaxxers perceive a political difference between them. Using randomized informational treatments, we show that a reminder or priming of external threats, appealing to a broadly shared social identity, might mitigate such outgroup discrimination. | |
dc.description.indexedby | WOS | |
dc.description.indexedby | Scopus | |
dc.description.openaccess | hybrid, Green Submitted | |
dc.description.publisherscope | International | |
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEu | N/A | |
dc.description.volume | 168 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2024.104818 | |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1873-572X | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0014-2921 | |
dc.identifier.quartile | Q1 | |
dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-85200253477 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2024.104818 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/22313 | |
dc.identifier.wos | 1287866400001 | |
dc.keywords | Social norms | |
dc.keywords | Outgroup discrimination | |
dc.keywords | Polarization | |
dc.keywords | Vaccination attitudes | |
dc.keywords | Experiment | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | ELSEVIER | |
dc.relation.ispartof | European Economic Review | |
dc.subject | Economics | |
dc.title | Social norms, political polarization, and vaccination attitudes: evidence from a survey experiment in Turkey | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
local.contributor.kuauthor | Kaba, Mustafa | |
local.publication.orgunit1 | College of Administrative Sciences and Economics | |
local.publication.orgunit2 | Department of Economics | |
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