School, Shocks, and Safety Nets: Can Conditional Cash Transfers Protect Human Capital Investments during Rainfall Shocks?

Abstract

The following supplementary materials provide further detail on our data, additional results, and robustness checks. Section SM1 explains the process for accessing our data sources and gives more detail on our variable construction.Section SM2 gives evidence that our rainfall deviations measure corresponds to increased agricultural production.Section SM3 provides detail on the construction of our attrition and propensity score weights.Section SM4 presents results regarding heterogeneity in the impact of Bolsa using our panel methodology.Section SM5 recreates our results using only current rainfall deviations rather than both current and lagged rainfall.Section SM6 discusses multiple hypothesis testing.

The role of social protection and tax policies in cushioning crisis impacts on income and poverty in low- and middle-income countries: A rapid scoping review

“…Then, they interact this measure with an indicator of whether the individual received benefits via some policy, such as a cash transfer. Fitz and League (2021) use this approach to assess how the Brazilian cash transfer programme Bolsa Família cushions the weather shocks for poor families in Brazil. They find that rainfall shocks cause an increase in children who work and that the cash transfer programme mitigates this effect.…”