Researchers from the University of Colorado Denver found “little to no association” between the flashy cash draws and an increase in vaccinations, but said other incentives may be more successful.
The chance to win cash prizes, including millions of dollars, actually did “little to move the needle” in terms of increasing Covid-19 vaccinations in the states that introduced such incentives this year, according to a study published Friday which backs up previous research on the failure of vaccine lotteries.
The researchers found “no statistically significant association” between a cash drawing announcement and vaccination rates in these states, according to the findings published in the JAMA Medical Journal, which are yet to be peer reviewed. The study’s authors highlighted that they looked at all the states collectively, meaning it is possible some individual states may have had more success than others .
But when analyzed all together, there was essentially “zero difference” in vaccinations in states that held lotteries versus those that didn’t, explained Dr. Andrew Friedson, one of the study’s authors who is an associate professor of economics at CU Denver. Though a million dollar prize would seem appealing, the study’s authors emphasized that cash lotteries may have been brushed off by many because of the lack of guaranteed outcome.
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