Table 2.

The impact of GEOSS on children’s vaccination rates A

Dependent variable:	Children under one year of age fully vaccinated
Estimator	FEM	FEM	FEM	FEM
Columns	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Children fully vaccinatedt-1	-0.035	-0.035	-0.030	-0.034
	(0.038)	(0.041)	(0.041)	(0.038)
Government expenditure on social securitiest+1 (GEOSSt+1)	0.002			0.003
	(0.004)			(0.004)
Government expenditure on social securitiest (GEOSSt)		0.008*		0.003
		(0.004)		(0.004)
Government expenditure on social securitiest-1 (GEOSSt-1)			0.011**	0.008*
			(0.004)	(0.004)
Time Fes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Province Fes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Observations	315	378	378	315
R-squared	0.538	0.541	0.544	0.545

Source: Authors. Columns [1] and [4] include the years 2011 and 2014–2018, while columns [2] and [3] cover the years 2014–2019. Standard errors are indicated in parentheses with significance levels: *** for p < 0.01, ** for p < 0.05, * for p < 0.1