Inequality, Social Capital, and Health in Bolivia, 2008-2009 (ICPSR 38898)

Version Date: Jan 11, 2024

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Principal Investigator(s):
Ricardo A. Godoy, Heller School for Social Policy and Management; William R. Leonard, Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Department of Anthropology

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38898.v1

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Summary

This randomized controlled trial examined the independent effect of village income inequality and individual income on individual health. Specifically, the study assessed how these two variables interacted with social capital to affect individual health. For the trial, 40 villages were selected for two experimental treatments.

In the first treatment, 13 villages were picked at random to receive 782kg of edible rice as in-kind income. The 782kg of rice was split equally between all households in the village. For the second treatment, another 13 villages were picked at random. Each village in the second treatment received the same amount of rice as the villages in the first treatment (782kg), but all of the rice went to the poorest 20 percent of households in the village, with each household getting the same amount of rice. All households in the remaining 14 villages and all households in the top 80 percent of the village income distribution of the second treatment acted as controls, and received 6kg of high-yielding, improved rice seeds.

The baseline survey was administered between February and May 2008, households received the rice between October 2008 and January 2009, and the end-line survey was administered between February and May 2009. Outcomes included anthropometric indicators of nutritional status, perceived health, and blood pressure.

Citation

Godoy, Ricardo A., and Leonard, William R. Inequality, Social Capital, and Health in Bolivia, 2008-2009. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-01-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38898.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R2 HD050776)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

Village

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2008 -- 2009

Date of Collection

2008-02 -- 2008-05 (Baseline Survey), 2009-02 -- 2009-05 (End-line Survey)
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Study Purpose

The main aim of this randomized controlled trial was to assess the independent effect of village income inequality and individual income on individual health.

Sample

All Tsimane' living in 40 villages during the baseline survey (2008) were included in this study.

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

Tsimane' living in 40 villages in Bolivia in 2008.

Unit(s) of Observation

Individual, Household

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

2024-01-11

Version History

2024-01-11 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.