Table 6.
Liquidity Impacts of the Emergency Cash-Transfer on Beliefs and Knowledge about COVID-19.
| [ 1 ] | [ 2] | [ 3 ] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DV average, AE installment not within last 14 days | Received AE installment within last 14 days |
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| Coefficient | n | Coefficient | n | Coefficient | n | |||
| Outcomes: | ||||||||
| [1] | COVID quiz | -0.413 | 0.388** | 178 | 0.385** | 159 | 0.443** | 156 |
| [0.156] | [0.184] | [0.191] | ||||||
| Cited among 3 trusted sources of COVID information: | ||||||||
| [2] | Pres Bolsonaro | 0.154 | -0.0719 | 178 | -0.0970* | 159 | -0.101 | 156 |
| [0.0487] | [0.0578] | [0.0608] | ||||||
| [3] | Health experts | 0.675 | 0.128* | 178 | 0.0817 | 159 | 0.0668 | 156 |
| [0.0672] | [0.0886] | [0.0952] | ||||||
| [4] | Trust Bolsonaro above health experts | 0.133 | -0.114*** | 143 | -0.109** | 128 | -0.108* | 125 |
| [0.0407] | [0.0528] | [0.0567] | ||||||
| Estimated probability ’X’ dies or is hospitalised if contracts COVID-19: | ||||||||
| [5] | X=”someone like me” | 29.62 | -0.985 | 178 | 1.748 | 159 | -0.887 | 156 |
| [4.736] | [4.864] | [4.847] | ||||||
| [6] | X=30-year old woman | 22.55 | 2.256 | 178 | 4.770 | 159 | 4.491 | 156 |
| [4.498] | [4.480] | [4.547] | ||||||
| [7] | X=65-year old man | 38.05 | 4.178 | 178 | 5.021 | 159 | 3.250 | 156 |
| [4.967] | [5.485] | [5.729] | ||||||
| Advocacy for a person to ’stay at home’ (instead of working) if: | ||||||||
| [8] | The person has COVID symptoms | 0.752 | 0.0184 | 178 | 0.0291 | 159 | 0.0342 | 156 |
| [0.0674] | [0.0778] | [0.0838] | ||||||
| [9] | Someone else in household has COVID symptoms | 0.444 | -0.0510 | 178 | -0.0598 | 159 | -0.0488 | 156 |
| [0.0780] | [0.0907] | [0.0985] | ||||||
| Controls: | No | Yes, baseline | Yes, baseline + num of AE installments received | |||||
Note: The sample is restricted to AE beneficiaries that are the only adult in the household. Each entry reports results from a separate regression. The reported coefficient refers to an indicator for whether the beneficiary received AE within the fourteen days immediately prior to answering the survey. Baseline controls include 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.