The welfare cost of homicides in Brazilaccounting for heterogeneity in the willingness to pay for mortality reductions
Cerqueira, Daniel; Soares, Rodrigo dos Reis
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Resumo
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 values to the welfare cost of increased mortality due to violence. Results indicate that the present discounted value of the welfare cost of homicides in Brazil corresponds to roughly 78% of the GDP or, in terms of yearly flow, 2.3%. The analysis also shows that reliance on aggregate data to perform such calculations can lead to biases of around 20% in the estimated social cost of violence. Copyright (c) 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Ficha do documento
- Tipo
- Artigo científico
- Ano
- 2016
- Instituição
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Fonte
- Repositório da FGV
- Idioma
- Inglês
- Acesso
- Acesso restrito
- Identificador
- oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/23552
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