57. Which Incentives Are Best at Boosting Vaccination, and Why?

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  I may be making that up, but I'm pretty sure it's got a germ of truth to it.

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  I'm Angela Duckworth.

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  I'm Stephen Dubner.

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  And you're listening to No Stupid Questions.

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  Today on the show, what sort of incentives increase vaccination take up?

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  If they're willing to enter me in a lottery that might pay me a million dollars,

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  it must be really bad.

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  Also, would you rather have the power of flight or invisibility?

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  This is a hypothetical question that you can never actually execute.

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  I did order an invisibility cloak just the other day from the back of the matchbook.

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  So Angela, the behavior change consortium that you help lead, behavior change for good,

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  recently did a big study trying to figure out how to get more people to get vaccines.

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  Now this was in anticipation of a COVID-19 vaccine.

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  So the actual experiment was encouraging people to get the flu vaccine,

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  not the COVID vaccine, which wasn't ready yet.

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  Right.

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  As I've read, the research found that most efforts didn't work that well,

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  but there was one that was really successful,

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  which was when people got a text saying that a vaccine dose is reserved for you or waiting for you.

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  Do I have that right so far?

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