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Social norms, political polarization, and vaccination attitudes: evidence from a survey experiment in Turkey

dc.contributor.coauthorKoyuncu, Murat
dc.contributor.coauthorSchneider, Sebastian O.
dc.contributor.coauthorSutter, Matthias
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Economics
dc.contributor.kuauthorKaba, Mustafa
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Administrative Sciences and Economics
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-29T09:37:18Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
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dc.description.openaccesshybrid, Green Submitted
dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
dc.description.volume168
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.euroecorev.2024.104818
dc.identifier.eissn1873-572X
dc.identifier.issn0014-2921
dc.identifier.quartileQ1
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dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2024.104818
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/22313
dc.identifier.wos1287866400001
dc.keywordsSocial norms
dc.keywordsOutgroup discrimination
dc.keywordsPolarization
dc.keywordsVaccination attitudes
dc.keywordsExperiment
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherELSEVIER
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean Economic Review
dc.subjectEconomics
dc.titleSocial norms, political polarization, and vaccination attitudes: evidence from a survey experiment in Turkey
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