reforms, fortifying governance frameworks, reducing crime, and mitigating the impact of natural disasters will help sustain …

Development Goals in the health, education, and infrastructure sectors in Brazil. We find that there is room for savings in … education (up to 1.5 percentage point of GDP) and health (up to 2.5 percentage points of GDP) without compromising the quality …

This paper presents a structural model of crime and output. Individuals make an occupational choice between criminal … the level of crime and economic activity. I calibrate the model to the Northern Triangle countries and conduct several … policy experiments. I find that for a country like Honduras crime reduces GDP by about 3 percent through its negative effect …

This paper studies the transmission of crime shocks to the economy in a sample of 32 Mexican states over the period … associated with the sign and magnitude of the responses of economic variables to crime shocks …

argued that public welfare programs can be viewed as a crime-preventing or disruption-preventing devices because they tend to … increase the opportunity cost of engaging in crime or disruptive activities. It is shown that, in the presence of a leisure …