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Do Vaccine Mandates on Childcare Services Work?

Here is the latest paper I have published with Ang Li  that provides an evaluation of No Jab No Play   policies that have been enacted in a series of Australian states.  Here is the title and abstract:    Title :   Vaccine mandates on childcare entry without conscientious objection exemptions: A quasi-experimental panel study   Abstract :  Objectives Examine the effect of No Jab No Play policies, which linked vaccine status to childcare service entry without allowing for personal belief exemptions, on  immunisation coverage . Study design Immunisation coverage rates from the Australian Immunisation Register were linked to regional level covariates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics between January 2016 and December 2019. Differential timings of policy rollouts across states were used to assess changes in coverage with the implementation of policies with generalised linear models. Quantile regression and subgroup analysis were also...