In this paper, we investigate the effect of student exposure to homicides on their educational performance and human … exposure to homicides in the public way on these outcomes. Using within-school and within-corridor estimates, we show that … and Portuguese language and increases dropout rates. We construct measures of student exposure to homicides on their way …

. We examine the case of the drug war in Mexico, which dramatically increased the number of homicides since late 2006 … evidence that increases in homicides have led to out-migration, at the domestic level. We also find little evidence of …

The study investigates the role of security officers and the police in dampening the effect of insecurity on homicides … lessen the effect of political instability and perception of criminality on homicides. Second , an extended analysis with … the impact of both insecurity dynamics on homicides. The concept of threshold represents the critical mass at which the …

persistence in homicides. The focus is on a global sample of 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. The empirical evidence is … persistence in homicides is sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), followed by Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and then … account for persistence in global homicides: crime, political instability and weapons import positively affect homicides …

health indicators. Taking 2017 as a reference, we estimate that homicides related to drug prohibition lead to a reduction in …

After reaching a historic peak by the end of the 1990s, homicides in large cities in the state of São Paulo dropped …-25 age bracket and homicides at the statewide and at city levels, and argue that the relationship is causal. We estimate that … a 1% increase in the proportion of 15-to-24-year-old males causes a 4.5% increase in homicides. …

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 …

Despite the widespread debate about crime in Brazil and the alarming increase in homicides in recent years, few studies … be due to issues of endogeneity when estimating the relationship between security spending and the rate of homicides. The … leads to a decrease of 0.6 per 100,000 people in the number of homicides. …