We report two results. First, we evaluate the impact of a nationwide anti-firearm legislation passed by the Brazilian Congress in December 2003 (Estatuto do Desarmamento, henceforth ED). Our identification strategy hinges on the hypothesis that the law had stronger impact in places where gun...

This paper estimates the health dimension of the welfare cost of homicides in Brazil incorporating age, gender, educational, and regional heterogeneities. We use the marginal willingness to pay approach from the "value of life" literature to assign monetary values to the welfare cost of...

In this article we develop a theoretical model to explain the homicide rate in any given place and construct a Bayesian model with a spatial structure to test the hypotheses. We assume that in his quest for self-fulfilment the individual, when taking the decision to perpetrate violence, not only...