Public policies in dangerous places: the Unified Educational Centers (CEU) in the city of São Paulo

Rômullo Carvalho () and Marcos Ki Hyung Lee ()

No 2016_44, Working Papers, Department of Economics from University of São Paulo (FEA-USP)

Abstract: Since 2003, São Paulo municipal government has started a public policy construction of “Centros Educacionais Unificados (CEUs)”, a complex with schools, sport, leisure and cultural facilities, in the most socially peripherical areas of the city. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first to investigate some effects related to the introduction of CEUs in these regions. Through a methodology of Differences-in-Differences with Propensity Score Matching and exploiting a criminal data from Public Security Secretariat, our results suggest that the areas affected by the program had - on average - from 6 to 9 homicides less, in comparison with areas that have not received CEU. This analysis, although preliminary, supports the idea that CEUs had a positive impact on welfare of its surrounding communities in different dimensions

Keywords: public policy; crime; education; development economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D04 D61 I28 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-12-20
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