Multidimensional_Wellbeing_Peru

Author: Yoseph Ayala

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General information

• This repository provides the codes I created for my bachelor thesis called Assessing multidimensional well-being in Peru: an empirical operationalization of the capabilities approach through the estimation of Multiple Indicator and Multiple Cause Models . I used Survey on Multidimensional Wellbeing. This dataset was provided by Instituto de Desarrollo Humano de América Latina (IDHAL-PUCP).
• This thesis was was approved unanimously with the outstanding mention.

Structure of the repository

• This repository has 4 scripts: 3 do files and 1 R script.
• 1. Variables recode: use the dataset provided by IDHAL-PUCP and recode some variables that are used as functionings and covariables
• 2. MIMIC estimation: estimates the econometric model using lavaan R package and estimates the capabilities' scores.
• 3. Weight agreggation: the weights are calculated using individual and social weights
• 4. Statistics T test: the comparison between subgroups are calculated here
• There is also a folder called graphs outputs, where you can find some of the paper's plots.

Final output

The paper is published here

MIMIC (Path model)