Table 4.
Impacts of Emergency Cash-Transfer on Beliefs and Knowledge about COVID-19.
| Sample (pre-pandemic household income) | 2.6-3.4 minimum salaries |
2–5 minimum salaries |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DV average where earned >3 m.s. | Earned less than 3 m.s. | n | DV average where earned >3 m.s. | Earned less than 3 m.s. | n | |
| Outcomes: | ||||||
| COVID quiz | 0.035 | -0.179* | 528 | 0.158 | -0.154*** | 1650 |
| [0.0937] | [0.0584] | |||||
| Cited among 3 trusted sources of COVID information: | ||||||
| Pres Bolsonaro | 0.127 | 0.0286 | 528 | 0.092 | 0.0397** | 1650 |
| [0.0323] | [0.0196] | |||||
| Health experts | 0.729 | -0.0084 | 528 | 0.743 | -0.0291 | 1650 |
| [0.0442] | [0.0265] | |||||
| Trust Bolsonaro above health experts | 0.102 | -0.0049 | 413 | 0.068 | 0.0234 | 1307 |
| [0.0335] | [0.0189] | |||||
| Estimated probability ’X’ dies or is hospitalised if contracts COVID-19: | ||||||
| X=”someone like me” | 23.055 | 3.674 | 528 | 22.762 | 3.917** | 1650 |
| [2.667] | [1.757] | |||||
| X=30-year old woman | 17.924 | 2.250 | 528 | 17.822 | 2.718* | 1650 |
| [2.282] | [1.446] | |||||
| X=65-year old man | 38.314 | 1.294 | 528 | 37.462 | 3.206* | 1650 |
| [2.869] | [1.808] | |||||
| Advocacy for a person to ’stay at home’ (instead of working) if: | ||||||
| The person has COVID symptoms | 0.805 | -0.0042 | 528 | 0.811 | -0.0075 | 1650 |
| [0.0388] | [0.0240] | |||||
| Someone else in their household has COVID symptoms | 0.470 | 0.0443 | 528 | 0.499 | 0.0082 | 1650 |
| [0.0484] | [0.0303] | |||||
Note: Each entry reports results from a separate regression. The reported coefficient refers to an indicator for whether the respondent lives in a household that earned less than three minimum salaries (the AE income eligibility cut-off) before the pandemic. Outcomes are explained in the text. All regressions include controls for state fixed effects and covariates for pre-pandemic conditions: household income per capita (mid-point of income range divided by the number of people living in the household), indicators for whether the participant has used government benefits, if the respondent was registered in Cadastro Unico, unemployment status, a pre-pandemic precautionary behaviour index (explained in the text), indicators for education, marital status, gender, race, age, if voted for Bolsonaro, if lives with elderly, number of people living in the household and a social desirability index (using a question asked in the British Election Study to measure respondents’ tendencies to provide socially desirable responses). Robust standard errors in brackets. ***p<0.01, **p<0.05, *p<0.1.