Medidas de custo-eficiência nos serviços subnacionais de segurança pública : uma abordagem com o uso de fronteiras estocásticas

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2008

RESUMO

This paper measures the efficiency of the subnational public security system estimating a stochastic cost frontier from a panel data (2001 to 2006). The given method innovates Brazilian economic public security research, focused primarily on determinants of murder rates, when comparing the deviations from efficiency frontier of the twenty-seven units of the Federation, considering their respective characteristics of budgetary allocations (costs), starting wages of military police, civil police and precinct chiefs (inputs), inverse of the homicide rate (output) and other environmental, management and socioeconomic variables. The results, controlling for the non-observed heterogeneity (fixed effects) and for possible endogeneity, suggest that cost-efficiency qualities are not related solely to the high expenditure levels on public safety sector. In reality, other factors have proved to affect efficiency levels, with emphasis to proxy variables of government activity in the areas of police, justice and prison, as well as to socioeconomic (income distribution), educational (rate of high school dropouts) and environmental aspects (urban population and drug market). It also verifies that Federal Government increases inefficiency when provide public employees to extinct territories and sustain the Distrito Federal public safety sector. Finally, São Paulo, Tocantins, Sergipe, and Roraima are the states which, on average, provide the most cost efficient public safety, whereas the Distrito Federal, Ceará, Bahia, and Rondônia are the least cost efficient.

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stochastic frontier panel data dados em painel custo-eficiência public security segurança pública fronteira estocástica cost efficiency economia

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