This 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 ...

Purpose - 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 ...

Participación en calidad de comentarista del trabajo de Watson & Phelps:Violence is common among small-scale societies and often stems from a combination of exogenous and endogenous factors. We suggest that socialization ...