Medidas de custo-eficiência dos serviços subnacionais de segurança pública no Brasil: 2001-2006

We calculated the efficiencies with which Brazilian states provide public safety by using a stochastic frontier cost function and panel data from 2001-2006. We estimate a Translog with fixed effects where prices for the production factors are the initial salaries of military police, civil police, an...

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Published in:Economia aplicada 2010-09, Vol.14 (3), p.313-338
Main Authors: Pereira Filho, Oliveira Alves, Tannuri-Pianto, Maria Eduarda, Sousa, Maria da Conceição Sampaio de
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Subjects:
Custo-Eficiência
ECONOMICS
Expenditures
Fronteira Estocástica
Military police
Public safety
School dropouts
Segurança Pública
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Summary:We calculated the efficiencies with which Brazilian states provide public safety by using a stochastic frontier cost function and panel data from 2001-2006. We estimate a Translog with fixed effects where prices for the production factors are the initial salaries of military police, civil police, and precinct chiefs and the product is the inverse of the homicide rate. To explain inefficiencies we use economic and demographic variables which measure active drug markets and the allocation of judicial, police, and penitentiary expenditures. Our models indicate that inefficiencies are higher when the size of drug markets, the ratio of military to civil police, the rate of high school dropouts, and income inequality increase. On the other hand, increasing judicial expenditures and the number of prison cells reduce inefficiency. São Paulo is the most cost efficient state providing public safety, whereas the Federal District is the least cost efficient.
ISSN:1413-8050
1980-5330
1980-5530
1980-5330
DOI:10.1590/S1413-80502010000300003