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Total Authors: 3
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| Affiliation: | [1] KTH Royal Inst Technol, Dept Urban Planning & Environm, Sch Architecture & Built Environm, Stockholm - Sweden
[2] Univ Estadual Campinas, Inst Econ, Campinas, SP - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 2
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | HOMICIDE STUDIES; v. 25, n. 4, p. 361-386, NOV 2021. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 0 |
| Abstract | |
This paper investigates the effect of absolute deprivation (proxy unemployment) and relative deprivation (proxy income inequality) on homicide levels in Brazil. A database from the Brazilian Information System about Mortality and Census of the year 2000 and 2010 was used to estimate negative binomial models of homicide levels controlling for socioeconomic, demographic, and geographic factors. Findings show that unemployment and income inequality affect homicides levels and that the effect of the former is more pronounced compared to the latter. Moreover, the combination of income inequality and unemployment exacerbates the overall effect of deprivation on homicide levels. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 16/23475-2 - Economic essays on crime in OECD member countries and Brazil |
| Grantee: | Temidayo James Aransiola |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/14236-0 - Economic essays on rural crime and cargo theft in Brazil |
| Grantee: | Temidayo James Aransiola |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate |