Monsees Daniel, Schmitz Hendrik
RWI Essen, Leibniz Science Campus Ruhr, Essen, Germany.
Department Economics, Paderborn University, Paderborn, Germany.
Health Econ. 2025 Apr;34(4):643-654. doi: 10.1002/hec.4929. Epub 2025 Jan 1.
We study the effect of education on vaccination against COVID in Germany in a sample of individuals above the age of 60. In ordinary least squares regressions, we find that, in this age group, one more year of education goes along with a 0.7 percentage point increase in the likelihood to get a COVID vaccination. In two stage least squares regressions where changes in compulsory schooling laws are used as exogenous variation for education, the effect of an additional year of education is estimated to be zero. The results hold for the compliers to the policy change which are older individuals at the lowest margin of education.
我们在60岁以上的个体样本中研究了教育对德国新冠疫苗接种的影响。在普通最小二乘法回归中，我们发现，在这个年龄组中，多接受一年教育会使接种新冠疫苗的可能性增加0.7个百分点。在两阶段最小二乘法回归中，义务教育法的变化被用作教育的外生变量，额外一年教育的影响估计为零。这些结果适用于政策变化的依从者，即教育程度最低边缘的老年个体。
