Incentivizing COVID-19 vaccination among racial/ethnic minority adults in the United States: $209 per dose could convince the hesitant

Table 2 Factors associated with willingness to accept conditional economic incentives to be vaccinated against COVID-19

	Other Peoples’ WTA (1)		Respondent’s WTA (2)
	OR (95% CI)	aOR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	aOR (95% CI)
Conditional incentive amount	1.02 (1.00, 1.03)**	1.02 (1.00, 1.03)**	1.02 (0.99, 1.05)	1.01 (0.98, 1.05)
Age^a	-	1.08 (0.84, 1.39)	-	0.84 (0.49, 1.45)
Race/Ethnicity
Both Black & Hispanic	-	(ref)	-	(ref)
Hispanic only	-	0.80 (0.24, 2.70)	-	1.08 (0.08, 14.43)
Black/African American only	-	0.43 (0.12, 1.46)	-	0.38 (0.03, 4.87)
Female gender
No		(ref)		(ref)
Yes		1.14 (0.71, 1.82)		2.33 (0.72, 7.56)
Preferred Language
Spanish	-	(ref)	-	(ref)
English	-	3.23 (1.82, 5.75)***	-	0.69 (0.21, 2.20)
Respondent’s vaccination status^b
Unvaccinated	-	(ref)	-	-
Vaccinated	-	2.72 (1.73, 4.27)***	-	-
Observations	367	367	104	104
Pseudo R-squared	0.006	0.050	0.0065	0.017
Probability	0.039	0.000	0.242	0.073
Log Likelihood	-371.10	-354.43	-104.37	-97.36

CI Confidence Interval, OR Odds Ratio, aOR Adjusted Odds Ratio, SE Standard Error, WTA Willingness-To-Accept
^*p < 0.10, **p < 0.05, ***p < 0.01; Table 2 presents the results from ordered logit regression models
^aAge was treated as a continuous variable in ordered logit regression analysis such that an odds ratio > 1 indicates a positive association between increasing odds of willingness to accept and being in an older age group
^bAll survey respondents regardless of vaccination status were asked the first contingent valuation question (i.e., how much they thought other people would be WTA for vaccination). Only unvaccinated survey respondents were asked the second contingent valuation question (i.e., how much they themselves would be WTA for vaccination)

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