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The effects of emergency government cash transfers on beliefs and behaviours during the COVID pandemic: Evidence from Brazil()
This paper examines the impacts of emergency cash-transfers on individuals’ social distancing behaviour and beliefs about COVID-19. We focus on the impacts of “Auxilio Emergencial” (AE): a large-scale cash-transfer in Brazil targeting low-income individuals who were unemployed or informally employed...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9968470/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36874911 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.01.006 |
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author | de Leon, Fernanda L. Lopez Malde, Bansi McQuillin, Ben |
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description | This paper examines the impacts of emergency cash-transfers on individuals’ social distancing behaviour and beliefs about COVID-19. We focus on the impacts of “Auxilio Emergencial” (AE): a large-scale cash-transfer in Brazil targeting low-income individuals who were unemployed or informally employed during the pandemic. To identify causal effects we exploit exogenous variation, arising from the AE design, in individuals’ access to the cash-transfer programme. Using data from an online survey, our results suggest that eligibility to the emergency cash transfer led to a reduced likelihood of individuals contracting COVID-19, likely to have been driven by a reduction in working hours. Moreover, the cash transfer seems to have increased perceptions about the seriousness of coronavirus, while also exacerbating misconceptions about the pandemic. These findings indicate effects of emergency cash-transfers in determining individuals’ narratives about a pandemic, in enabling social distancing and potentially in reducing the spread of the disease. |
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spelling | pubmed-99684702023-02-27 The effects of emergency government cash transfers on beliefs and behaviours during the COVID pandemic: Evidence from Brazil() de Leon, Fernanda L. Lopez Malde, Bansi McQuillin, Ben J Econ Behav Organ Article This paper examines the impacts of emergency cash-transfers on individuals’ social distancing behaviour and beliefs about COVID-19. We focus on the impacts of “Auxilio Emergencial” (AE): a large-scale cash-transfer in Brazil targeting low-income individuals who were unemployed or informally employed during the pandemic. To identify causal effects we exploit exogenous variation, arising from the AE design, in individuals’ access to the cash-transfer programme. Using data from an online survey, our results suggest that eligibility to the emergency cash transfer led to a reduced likelihood of individuals contracting COVID-19, likely to have been driven by a reduction in working hours. Moreover, the cash transfer seems to have increased perceptions about the seriousness of coronavirus, while also exacerbating misconceptions about the pandemic. These findings indicate effects of emergency cash-transfers in determining individuals’ narratives about a pandemic, in enabling social distancing and potentially in reducing the spread of the disease. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. 2023-04 2023-02-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9968470/ /pubmed/36874911 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.01.006 Text en © 2023 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article de Leon, Fernanda L. Lopez Malde, Bansi McQuillin, Ben The effects of emergency government cash transfers on beliefs and behaviours during the COVID pandemic: Evidence from Brazil() |
title | The effects of emergency government cash transfers on beliefs and behaviours during the COVID pandemic: Evidence from Brazil() |
title_full | The effects of emergency government cash transfers on beliefs and behaviours during the COVID pandemic: Evidence from Brazil() |
title_fullStr | The effects of emergency government cash transfers on beliefs and behaviours during the COVID pandemic: Evidence from Brazil() |
title_full_unstemmed | The effects of emergency government cash transfers on beliefs and behaviours during the COVID pandemic: Evidence from Brazil() |
title_short | The effects of emergency government cash transfers on beliefs and behaviours during the COVID pandemic: Evidence from Brazil() |
title_sort | effects of emergency government cash transfers on beliefs and behaviours during the covid pandemic: evidence from brazil() |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9968470/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36874911 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.01.006 |
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