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Working Paper #2021-046

How education and GDP drive the COVID-19 vaccination campaign

Vu M. Ngo, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Phuc V. Nguyen, Toan L.D. Huynh & Huan H. Nguyen #2021-046 PDF

Since vaccination is the decisive factor for controlling the COVID-19
pandemic, it is important to understand the process to vaccination
success. We identify a variety of factors playing a crucial role
including the availability of vaccines, pandemic pressures, economic
strength (GDP), educational development and political regimes. Examining
the speed of vaccinations across countries, we find that initially
authoritarian countries are slow in the vaccination process, while
education is most relevant for scaling up the campaign and financial
strength of the economies drive them to higher vaccination rates.

Keywords
  • COVID-19
  • educational development
  • political regimes
  • vaccination
JEL codes
  • D72
  • C30
  • P16
  • I19
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Ngo, V. M., Zimmermann, K. F., Nguyen, P. V., Huynh, T. L., & Nguyen, H. H. (2021). How education and GDP drive the COVID-19 vaccination campaign (UNU-MERIT Working Paper No. 2021-046). UNU-MERIT. https://unu-merit.nl/publications/working-papers/abstract/?id=9115

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