Criminalidade e despesas públicas no Brasil: Estimativa do impacto dos gastos públicos em segurança sobre as taxas de homicídio

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Despite the widespread debate about crime in Brazil and the alarming increase in homicides in recent years, few studies have analyzed or expos ed evidence of the impact of public security spending on det erring violence in the country . This may be due to issues of endogeneity when estimating the relationship between securi ty spending and the rate of homicides. The primary innovation presented in this paper is the use of a Bartik - inspired instrument to address the simultaneity issue. It measures government security spending in a two - stage least squares estimation, obtaining outcomes that are not only statistically but also practically significant. Results indicate that an increase of R$ 10 per capita in annual security expenditure leads to a decrease of 0.6 per 100,000 people in the number of homicides.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Portugiesisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IDB Working Paper Series ; No. IDB-WP-909

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Other ; State and Local Budget and Expenditures ; State and Local Government: Other Expenditure Categories ; Law and Economics: General ; Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
• Thema: Brazil ; citizen security ; crime ; crime prevention ; homicides ; public expenditure

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Gomes, Camila
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
• (wo): Washington, DC
• (wann): 2019

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.18235/0001365
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/234639
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ