The Effect of Compulsory Schooling on Vaccination Against COVID
We study the effect of education on vaccination against COVID in Germany in a sample of individuals above the age of 60. Inordinary least squares regressions, we find that, in this age group, one more year of education goes along with a 0.7 percentagepoint increase in the likelihood to get a COVID vaccination. In two stage least squares regressions where changes in compulsoryschooling laws are used as exogenous variation for education, the effect of an additional year of education is estimated to bezero. The results hold for the compliers to the policy change which are older individuals at the lowest margin of education.
Monsees, D. and H. Schmitz (2025), The Effect of Compulsory Schooling on Vaccination Against COVID. Health Economics, 34, 4, 643-654
DOI: 10.1002/hec.4929