The economic cost of deaths by state intervention: a Brazilian case study.
Murder; Cost of Violence; Input-Output; Brazil.
Violence has intensified in recent years in Brazil, directly affecting the lives of citizens by imposing strong economic and social restrictions, in addition to causing a generalized feeling of fear and insecurity. As a result of this, the number of homicides in the country has increased substantially, placing Brazil as the 9th country in the world with the highest rate of homicides. In this sense, this project seeks to understand how these lives lost violently reached the gross domestic product in 2020. To this end, the input-output matrix methodology will be used in order to measure the sectoral impacts on aggregate demand caused by these premature deaths by intervention of State. To obtain the results, the Input-Output Matrix of Brazil and the State of Rio de Janeiro, reference year 2015, provided by Haddad et al. (2020), seeking to measure the impacts of these interruptions of these lives in the production structure.