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

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  • Rômullo Carvalho
  • Marcos Ki Hyung Lee

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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

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  • Rômullo Carvalho & Marcos Ki Hyung Lee, 2016. "Public policies in dangerous places: the Unified Educational Centers (CEU) in the city of São Paulo," Working Papers, Department of Economics 2016_44, University of São Paulo (FEA-USP).
    • Handle: RePEc:spa:wpaper:2016wpecon44
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    Keywords

    public policy; crime; education; development economics;
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    JEL classification:

    • D04 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Policy: Formulation; Implementation; Evaluation
    • D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

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