Mello, João M. P. De - 2010
Mimicking the US in 1980 and 1990s, Brazil is a remarkable case of a major shift in homicides. After increasing … steadily throughout the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s, homicides reached a peak in 2003, and then fell. I show a strong … state in the country, and whose shift in homicides has been particularly acute. City-level panel elasticities are similar to …