Does crime pay? How punishments and welfare changes affect the decision to break the law

• Grant number: 11/05356-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2011
• End date: January 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Economics - Social Welfare Economics
• Principal Investigator: André Portela Fernandes de Souza
• Grantee: Isabel Ferraz Musse
• Host Institution: Escola de Economia de São Paulo (EESP). Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The objective of this research is to understand the relationship between drug consumption and trafic with drug related crime and other crimes. The change in penalties induces by the Law No. 11,343, from 2006, will be explored in a discontinuity regression, which identifies the relation between drug and crime, usually contaminated by endogeneity. The database covers individuals from 18 to 25 years old who have been indiciated for different crimes, and also mortality data and hospital admissions for drug abuse records in Datasus. (AU)