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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE-AT link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Dear members and friends of the VCEE,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>you are invited to attend the VCEE seminar on <b>Friday, May 13, 2022</b>, from 10:30 to 12:00 hrs Vienna time HS 16.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>We will have one speaker: Michal Bauer (Cerge-EI&Charles University Prague)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#3C4043;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white'>Title:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#3C4043;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white'> Spreading consensus: Correcting misperceptions about the views of the medical community has lasting impacts on Covid-19 vaccine take-up <i>(with Vojtěch Bartoš, Jana Cahlíková, Julie Chytilová)</i></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#3C4043;letter-spacing:.15pt'><br><br><br><b><span style='background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#3C4043;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white'>Abstract</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#3C4043;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white'>: Identifying sources of vaccine hesitancy is one of the central challenges in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic. In this study, we focus on the role of public misperceptions of doctors’ views. Motivated by widespread concern that media reports create uncertainty in how people perceive expert opinions, even when broad consensus exists, we elicited trust in Covid-19 vaccines held by 9,650 doctors in the Czech Republic. We found evidence of a strong consensus: 90% of doctors trust the vaccines. Next, we conducted a nationally representative survey (N=2,101), and document systemic misperceptions of doctors’ views: more than 90% of respondents underestimate doctors’ trust; the most common belief is that only 50% of doctors trust the vaccines. Finally, we integrate randomized provision of information about the true views held by doctors into a longitudinal data collection, and regularly measure its impacts on vaccine take-up during a nine-month period when the vaccines were gradually rolled out. We find that the treatment recalibrates beliefs and leads to a lasting and stable increase in vaccine demand: individuals who receive the information are 4 percentage points more likely to be vaccinated nine months after the intervention. This paper illuminates how the engagement of professional medical associations, with their unparalleled capacity to elicit individual views of doctors on a large scale, can help to create a cheap, scalable intervention that corrects misperceptions and has lasting impacts on behavior.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#3C4043;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=event-description><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>I</span></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>f you are interested in meeting<b> Michal Bauer </b>after the seminar<b><u> </u></b>(meeting slots of 30’ , room no 05.330 please register via this doodle-link: </span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:DE-AT'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/ejRVXWye<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Best regards,</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Wieland Müller</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>