This study aims at shedding light the question on the criminality in Brazil. Previous analyses have concentrated on the impact of social factors, as for instance inequality, on criminality, nevertheless without making explicit the mechanism by which this variable works. The main hypothesis here...

Latin American and Caribbean countries are world leaders in intentional homicide rates. Our estimates suggest that the intentional homicide rate in the Latin America and Caribbean region is 40 percent higher than the average for the rest of the world. The intentional homicide rate for a group of...

This paper examines the influence of income distribution and of federal transfers to the Federation Units (FUs) on the flow of migrants received by each of the FU. The study breaks new ground by adopting aggregated data to measure the effects of public policy on immigration. The econometric...