森林舞会游戏经济学前沿高端讲座第七十讲

Why Get Vaccinated? Experimental Evidence on Prosocial Motives

主讲人：Jun Hyung Kim 助理教授（韩国科学技术学院（KAIST））

主持人：许睿 助理教授（森林舞会游戏中国经济研究院）

嘉宾介绍：杨哲 助理教授（森林舞会游戏中国经济研究院）

时间：2024年11月15日（周五）  14：45-16：15（北京时间）

地点：森林舞会游戏蒲河校区机关楼401会议室

线上地址：腾讯会议358-6417-4104

语言：英文 

摘要：Why do people get vaccinated, and how can we promote vaccination? We conduct a field experiment in a large developing country in the midst of the COVID-19
pandemic to promote vaccination and confirm vaccine take-up in the next 12 months after the experiment. We use gain-loss framing to deliver information to the subjects on the
benefits of vaccination in protecting the health of others. For both vaccination intentions and vaccine take-up, we find positive impact of information treatment. The effects on
stated intentions are significantly greater for the messages focusing on the ``loss'' in prosocial motives when not vaccinated. We explain our findings in a theoretical model and
calibrate the prosocial loss aversion parameter to be within range of private loss aversion parameter estimates in the literature.

主讲人简介：

Jun Hyung Kim is an assistant professor of economics at the School of Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He was at KAIST since the fall of 2023. Jun Hyung Kim was born in South Korea and finished BA in economics at UC Berkeley. He received PhD in
Economics in 2019 at the University of Chicago under the supervision of Professor James J. Heckman. In 2019 he started his career at the Institute for Economic at the Social
Research at Jinan University in Guangzhou, China, with a research agenda focusing on the economics of labor market, human capital development, family, and education. In 2022, he received the Research Fund for International Young Scientists from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He is also a member of the Human Capital and
Economic Opportunity Global Working Group, Global Labor Organization, and the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). His area of research is labor economics. Specifically, he is interested in the issues of parenting, childcare, fertility, and human capital development. He published 10 articles and one book chapter in leading academic journals such as the
Journal of Labor Economics and the Journal of Marketing Research.