Ensaios sobre economia regional: corrupção e homicídios, um estudo com dados em painel para o Brasil e para América Latina

• Ano de defesa: 2021
• Autor(a) principal: Elias, Lacerda Sipriano
• Orientador(a): Moreira, Tito Belchior Silva
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Católica de Brasília
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa Stricto Sensu em Economia de Empresas
• Departamento: Escola de Humanidades, Negócios e Direito
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Corrupção; Homicídios; Aspectos socioeconômicos
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Socioeconomic aspects; Homicides; Corruption
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ECONOMIA
• Link de acesso: https://bdtd.ucb.br:8443/jspui/handle/tede/2866

This paper evaluates two approaches to the determinants of homicide rates, based on panel data for Brazil, by states, and for Latin America, based on a sample of countries. The first approach assesses the impacts of the government corruption index proposed by Boll (2010) on the homicide rate in the period 1998-2008. The second approach shows the impact of the corruption perception index proposed by the “Transparency International” website on homicide rates in Latin American countries in the period 2010-2018. The explanatory variables of interest, in both approaches, are proxies for corruption and, in this context, the contribution of this research is to assess the impact of corruption on homicide rates, as this approach is little explored in the literature. Based on different empirical models, the results confirm the hypothesis that acts of corruption affect homicide rates, even controlling for other variables associated with socioeconomic aspects for both Brazil and Latin America. In short, there are empirical evidences that the greater the presence of corruption in society, the higher the homicide rate will be.