Study Galama et al. (2017): study CO 2010
- Public
- Heads of poor families, earlier benefactors and non-benefactors of a welfare program, Colombia, 2010
- Survey name
- CO ECV 2010
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 668
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Eligible for FAU anti-poverty program
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- SISBEN scale, was collected between 2005 and 2006 from census of the poor and contains information on about 20 million individuals, roughly 50 percent of Colombia’s population.
- Distribution
- Local control Mean= +0.78
- Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- Eligibility for anti-poverty program on the basis of score on 0-100 SISBEN scale in 2005
1: Eligible: score 0-10: most poor
0: Not eligible: score 11-20 least poor
Participants with children ages 12 and below utilize nutritional subsidy. They were required to send their children for periodical medical check
Participants with children utilize educational subsidy which is contingent on school grade, not age. They were required to send their children to school
Observed Relation with Happiness
PRC coefficient differ for degrees of poverty
- poverty position 9 +.39(ns) N = 583
- poverty position 8 +.49(ns) N = 530
- poverty position 7 +.47(ns) N = 472
- poverty position 6 +.58(05) N = 413
- poverty position 5 +.14(ns) N = 336
- poverty position 9 +.06(ns) N = 583
- poverty position 8 +.16(ns) N = 530
- poverty position 7 +.59(01) N = 472
- poverty position 6 +.13(ns) N = 413
- poverty position 5 -.15(ns) N = 336
Eligible most-poor end up happier than not-eligible not-sufficiently-poor
PRCs controlled for
- Income
- Work
- Food
- Control over one's life
- Dwelling
- Ability to help others
- Health
- Education
- Community
- Level of security
- Friends