Vaccine nationalism among the public: A cross-country experimental evidence of own-country bias towards COVID-19 vaccination

Investigating how historical legacies of militarized violence can motivate COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: Evidence from global dyadic survey

“…These are Germany, UK, Australia, France, USA, Singapore, India, and China. The data clearly show a home bias—people universally prefer vaccines developed in their own countries to those developed abroad (see Section A in SI for detail; see also Smith (2021) and Barceló et al (2022) ). Given our interest in evaluations of vaccines produced abroad, we remove these 8 dyads—( p , c ) where p = c —from our data.…”

“… Fong et al, 2014 ; Lee et al, 2013 ). Some evidence gives support for the idea that a locally-manufactured vaccine is more favored even when the technology is developed in a foreign country ( Barceló et al, 2022 ). It would be useful to know more about whether such strategies are effective in reducing distrust of foreign vaccines.…”

“…First, and perhaps most importantly, our research contributes to the complex web of social and political factors found to underlie contemporary vaccine hesitancy. Past work primarily focuses on both contemporary and individual-level social, political, and psychological determinants of vaccine refusal in the United States ( Callaghan et al 2019 , 2021 ; Dubé et al, 2013 ; Gadarian et al, 2021 ; Grossman et al, 2020 ; Martinelli and Veltri, 2021 ) and around the world ( Barceló et al, 2022 ; Hornsey et al, 2018 ; Kobayashi et al, 2021 ; Lunz Trujillo and Motta, 2021 ; Murphy et al, 2021 ). Our work, in contrast, offers insights into how historical geopolitical factors might influence global vaccine hesitancy.…”

Infographics on risks associated with COVID-19 and the willingness to get the AstraZeneca vaccine: two randomized online experiments

“…Furthermore, the news coverage on the COVID-19 pandemic put the German public into the position to compare vaccines of different manufacturers and form a preference. Several studies show that many citizens prefer vaccines originating from their own country [ 48 – 50 ]. Individuals with a strong preference for a certain vaccine have a high vaccination intention when offered their preferred vaccine.…”

A cross-national study of multilevel determinants on public fully vaccination against COVID-19

“…Most studies on this topic emphasize a single country such as the United States ( Szilagyi et al, 2021 ), the United Kingdom ( Becchetti et al, 2021 ), Germany ( Seddig et al, 2022 ), Italy ( Capasso et al, 2021 ), Netherlands ( Mouter et al, 2022 ), Sweden ( Campos-Mercade et al, 2021 ), Turkey ( Dal and Tokdemir, 2022 ), Japan ( Sasaki et al, 2022 ), and Singapore ( Tan et al, 2022 ). However, few studies analyze data across countries ( Barceló et al, 2022 ; Breslin et al, 2021 ; Hess et al, 2022 ; Lazarus et al, 2021 ; Murphy et al, 2021 ; Neumann-Böhme et al, 2020 ). More importantly, these cross-national studies typically use surveys before the vaccine is available and thus focus on people's willingness to take the vaccine, not gauging whether people had taken the vaccine.…”