Welfare and income programs for women in the countryside

Abstract

Social monetary transfer programs have an impact on the income of many households where women are beneficiaries of them. This document reviews the behavior of Bienestar programs in rural households based on agricultural production and aimed at women. The hypothesis states that a household headed by a woman is less likely to be a beneficiary of the programs. Using probit and logit models based on information from the National Household Income and Expenditure Survey (ENIGH) for the year 2022, the degree of participation of women in social policies aimed at the field of the current Federal Government is measured, while, at the same time, a t test is carried out for comparison of group samples that indicates differences in income between households whose heads of family are men with respect to women, without there being a statistical difference between women beneficiaries of the programs and those who they are not.