In this article we develop a theoretical model to explain the homicide rate in any given place and construct a Bayesian … taking the decision to perpetrate violence, not only responds to expected economic costs and benefits, but also to an … conclusions show that the probability of victimization by violence is higher in places with greater income inequality, larger …

This study analyzes the effect of income on repeat criminal victimization in Brazil using data from the 2009 National …

Brazil's violence is changing. Recent analyses highlight a trend of dispersion of violence such that homicide rates in urban …Brazilian homicide rates are among the highest in the world, inclusive of actual war zones. However, the character of … violence and economic activity, and also generates a proxy to measure the geographic concentration of police forces. Using …

capital investments. Combining a number of large georeferenced administrative datasets from Brazil, we estimate the effect of … violence in the surroundings of schools has a detrimental effect on school attendance and on standardised test scores in math …

In this article we develop a theoretical model to explain the homicide rate in any given place and construct a Bayesian … taking the decision to perpetrate violence, not only responds to expected economic costs and benefits, but also to an … conclusions show that the probability of victimization by violence is higher in places with greater income inequality, larger …

This paper studies the effect of female political representation on violence against women. Using a Regression … Discontinuity design for close mayoral elections between female and male candidates in Brazil, we find that electing female mayors … leads to a reduction in episodes of gender violence. The effect is particularly strong when focusing on incidents of …

auto theft. Starting in 2014, many municipalities in Brazil increased the monitoring of spare parts sold by junkyards …