Listagem Produção Intelectual em Bases Externas por autor "Soares, Rodrigo dos Reis"
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Access to justice and entrepreneurship: evidence from Brazil's special civil tribunals
2014-05Entrepreneurship is usually identified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A recent literature has ... -
Development, crime and punishment: accounting for the international differences in crime rates
2004-02This paper analyzes the determinants of the heterogeneity in crime rates across countries, focusing on reporting rates and development. The behavior of the reporting rate is studied by comparing data from victimization ... -
Human capital persistence and development
2017-10This paper documents the persistence of human capital over time and its association with long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted immigrants with higher ... -
Living on the edge: youth entry, career and exit in drug-selling gangs
2016-01We use data from a unique survey of members of drug-trafficking gangs in favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to characterize drug-trafficking jobs and study the selection into gangs, analyzing what distinguishes ... -
Organization and information in the fight against crime: the integration of police forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
2017-05This paper analyzes the experience of information sharing, coordination, and integration of actions of the civil and military police forces in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the context of the IGESP program. The ... -
Spillovers from conditional cash transfer programs: Bolsa Família and crime in urban Brazil
2016This paper investigates the impact of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset combining detailed school characteristics with geo-referenced crime information from the city of São ... -
The use of violence in illegal markets: evidence from mahogany trade in the Brazilian Amazon
2017-10We provide evidence on the effect of market illegality on violence. Brazil was historically the main exporter of mahogany. Starting in the 1990s, trade was restricted and eventually prohibited. We build on previous evidence ... -
Water scarcity and birth outcomes in the Brazilian semiarid
2015-01Roughly one-third of the rural population in developing countries lives in arid and semiarid regions, facing recurrent water scarcity. This is likely to become an even more common situation with climate change. This paper ... -
The welfare cost of homicides in Brazil: accounting for heterogeneity in the willingness to pay for mortality reductions
2016-03This paper estimates the health dimension of the welfare cost of homicides in Brazil incorporating age, gender, educational, and regional heterogeneities. We use a marginal willingness to pay approach to assign monetary ... -
Welfare costs of crime and common violence
2015Purpose - Negative effects of crime encompass several different dimensions. As a result, there is no existing methodology capable of dealing with all the relevant issues simultaneously and the interpretation of the estimates ...
