Katy Milkman discusses a recent study by the Behavior Change for Good Initiative about how to improve vaccination rates

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Katy Milkman, Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics and Professor of Operations, Information & Decisions at Wharton, talks to Wharton Business Daily Host Dan Loney about the psychology behind persuading people to take a vaccine.

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