The “São Paulo Mystery”: The role of the criminal organization PCC in reducing the homicide in 2000s

We move forward in identifying the causes of the marked and systematic reduction in the homicide rate in São Paulo state in the 2000s. Its main objective was that of investigating the role of the criminal organization PCC in this process. We constructed a first-difference fixed effects model with a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Marcelo Justus, Daniel Ricardo de Castro Cerqueira, Tulio Kahn, Gustavo Carvalho Moreira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-05-01
Series:EconomiA
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1517758017300796