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The institutional origins of vaccines distrust: Evidence from former-Soviet countries.
Article in PloS one, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- What accounts for the variation in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Eastern, Southern and Western Europe?Vaccine · 2023Article
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- Communism's Lasting Effect? Former Communist States and COVID-19 Vaccinations.Cross-cultural research : official journal of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research · 2023Article
- Persuasive Messages Will Not Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: Evidence from a Nationwide Online Experiment.Vaccines · 2021Article
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Abstract
How is vaccines scepticism related to the exposure to Soviet communism? Using individual level evidence on vaccine trust with regards to its efficiency and safety in 122 countries that differ in their exposure to communism, we document that past exposure to Soviet communism is associated with lower trust in vaccination. We show that exposure to socio-political regimes can negatively affect trust in vaccines, which is explained by weak trust in both government and medical advice from doctors as well as in people from the neighbourhood. These results suggest that roots of vaccine scepticism lie in a wider distrust in public and state institutions resulting from the exposure to Soviet communism.
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