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

low birthweight and prematurity. Effects are found in both rural areas, where homicides are rare, and in urban areas …

relationship between child access prevention (CAP) laws and firearm-related homicides committed by juveniles. Our results suggest … that CAP laws are associated with a 19 percent reduction in juvenile firearm-related homicides. The estimated effect is … that CAP laws are associated with firearm-related homicides committed by adults or with non-firearm-related homicides …

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 …

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. …

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

effects on homicides are documented across three sources of homicide data. …

instability in the structural determinants of homicides. In this context, a distinction is made in relation to the regimes that … effects show that socioeconomic variables tend to play an important role in explaining the variation of homicides in the non …-joint operation regime, the historical level of homicides and closeness to the U.S. border operate in a more significant way for those …