Policy Papers
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Policy Paper Does access to Starlink improve criminal capability in the Amazon?(2025) Borges, Pedro Pereira; NAERCIO AQUINO MENEZES FILHO; Komatsu, Bruno; Maturano, DimitriStarlink began its operations as a satellite-broadband internet services provider in the Brazilian Amazon in 2022; since then, forest loss drastically increased due to the spread of wildfires, despite efforts to curb deforestation. We estimate Starlink leads to a change in profile for environmental crimes, with a substitution from clear-cutting deforestation to the spread of wildfires which, seemingly, are tied to increases in deforestation by successive degradation. We find, however, little evidence for increased policing—particularly so in protected and sensitive areas, like Conservation Units and Indigenous Peoples’ Lands—, suggesting criminals successfully exploit expansion in informational infrastructure to evade lawenforcement agents, despite the apparent slowdown in deforestation.Policy Paper Electoral Impacts of Denialist Speech during a Pandemic(2025) Maturano, Dimitri; Komatsu, Bruno Kawaoka; NAERCIO AQUINO MENEZES FILHOWe examine electoral repercussions of denialist campaigns during a global pandemic, focusing on the impact of COVID-19 on the electoral performance of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019 to 2022). Leveraging intercity variations in commuting costs, we develop a novel instrument, grounded in epidemiological models of transmission, capturing exogenous exposition to the virus. Our analysis reveals that municipalities with lower isolation faced higher cumulative mortality rates which, in turn, imposed significant electoral costs on Bolsonaro. We attribute these costs, which were determinant to electoral outcomes and his defeat, to voters’ perceptions of his administration’s recklessness, driven by public speeches belittling the crisis, rather than voters’ support for strict sanitary policies or a generalized tendency to penalize incumbents during crises.Policy Paper Todos São Iguais Perante a Lei? Abordagem Policial e Raça em São Paulo(2024) Gusmão, Lucas Novaes Cabral de; NAERCIO AQUINO MENEZES FILHO; Komatsu, Bruno KawaokaVieses raciais podem afetar dimensões diversas da vida e do bem-estar de pessoas. Nesse estudo, examinamos a relação entre a raça e a probabilidade de ser abordado por agentes de segurança com e sem violência física. Nós usamos as bases de dados da Pesquisa de Vitimização na Cidade de São Paulo de 2003 a 2023, para estimar as diferenças na probabilidade de abordagem entre as pessoas brancas e as pessoas pretas, pardas ou indígenas (PPI), após controlarmos por diferenças nas características socioeconômicas, hábitos, e regiões da cidade. Nossos resultados indicam que as pessoas PPI têm uma probabilidade 3,5 pontos percentuais maior de serem abordadas pela polícia do que as pessoas brancas. Essa diferença se repete em todos os tipos de abordagem. Entre aqueles que foram abordados, a diferença na probabilidade de uso de violência física entre as raças é 5,4 pontos percentuais. Essas diferenças são maiores entre os homens, os mais jovens, as classes menos favorecidas e as pessoas com escolaridade intermediária.Policy Paper Political ideology, regulatory framework and contracting out(2023) Kalichman, David Diniz; Menezes Filho, Naercio Aquino; NAERCIO AQUINO MENEZES FILHOThe influence of political ideology on make-or-buy choices for public provision has been a subject of intense debate from various theoretical perspectives, but the empirical evidence so far has been mixed. This paper delves into this issue by using a regression discontinuity (RD) design to examine the effect of mayoral ideology on contracting-out and public-sector outsourcing in Brazil, a country with broad constitutional guarantees and intergovernmental transfers for local public service provision. We estimate no ideological effect on contracting-out healthcare facilities, early-childhood schools or in outsourcing of the public workforce. Constraints on local regulatory and fiscal autonomy in local public services, coupled with a lack of strong ideological alignment between parties and candidates, curtail partisan differences in decisions whether to procure or provide services in-house.