Did Brazil s homicide law stop men from killing their intimate female partners?

Did Brazil s homicide law stop men from killing their intimate female partners?

Shoshana Grossbard (San Diego State University)

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ABSTRACT:

Domestic violence is a serious national problem despite the Brazilian government's efforts to eradicate it. Brazil’s introduction of law number 13,104/2015 (the Femicide Law of 2015) provides for a qualifying circumstance for the crime of homicide with an aggravating penalty for the aggressors for killing a woman because of gender and includes femicide in the list of heinous crimes. The present research aims at evaluating the impact of this law on female homicides and on the occurrence of aggressions against women. It uses data from the Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN) for the period 2010-2019 and measures of the occurrence of aggressions in hospitals as well as aggregated data on the number of daily deaths due to external causes were obtained from the Mortality Information System (SIM). We apply a methodology of differences in differences.

BIO:

Shoshana Grossbard is a resident scholar in the Economics department and the Center for Health Economics and Policy Studies at San Diego State University, founding editor of Review of Economics of the Household published by Springer since 2003, past Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and founder and past president of the Society of Economics of the Household. Her books include On the Economics of Marriage, Marriage and the Economy and The Marriage Motive (Springer, 2015). She is a research affiliate with the Family Inequality Network (HCEO, University of Chicago), IZA and GLO.