enhancing political and judiciary accountability. We do so in the context of Brazil’s anti-corruption program, which randomly …Political corruption is considered a major impediment to economic development, and yet it remains pervasive throughout … the world. This paper examines the extent to which government audits of public resources can reduce corruption by …

Military Polices in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the context of the IGESP program. The IGESP is based on the …

first piece of evidence on the causal effect of illegality on systemic violence. Brazil has historically been the main world …

combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we …

This paper estimates the health dimension of the welfare cost of homicides in Brazil incorporating age, gender … discounted value of the welfare cost of homicides in Brazil corresponds to roughly 78% of the GDP or, measured in terms of yearly …

We use data from a unique survey of members of drug-trafficking gangs in favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to …