Happiness and Victimization in Latin America

Carolina Ortega Londoño, Daniel Gómez Mesa, Lina Cardona-Sosa and Catalina Gómez Toro
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Carolina Ortega Londoño: Universidad EAFIT
Daniel Gómez Mesa: Universidad EAFIT
Catalina Gómez Toro: Universidad EAFIT

Journal of Happiness Studies, 2019, vol. 20, issue 3, No 15, 935-954

Abstract: Abstract This study examines the effect that crime victimization has on Latin American citizens’ life satisfaction. The data comes from the Americas Barometer Survey of 2014, a public opinion project that collects self-reported measures of life satisfaction. To overcome some of the methodological issues faced by previous studies, a generalized ordered logit with partial constraints is used to examine the existence of a relationship. The results reinforces the negative association between being a victim of a crime and an individual’s level of life satisfaction as found by previous studies. It also supports previous findings showing that what matters is being a direct victim of a crime rather than living in a country with high homicides rates. In both cases, the size of the relationship differs by country.

Keywords: Crime; Happiness; Life satisfaction; Generalized ordered logit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D62 I3 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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