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The Political Economy of Slum Growth: Evidence from Brazil

dc.contributor.authorAlves, Guillermo
dc.coverage.spatialAmérica Latina y el Caribees_ES
dc.coverage.spatialBrasiles_ES
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-03T21:17:41Z
dc.date.available2023-03-03T21:17:41Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.citationAlves, G. (2023). The Political Economy of Slum Growth: Evidence from Brazil. Retrieved from https://scioteca.caf.com/handle/123456789/2006en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://scioteca.caf.com/handle/123456789/2006
dc.description.tableofcontentsOne-fourth of the world’s urban population lives in slums and the number of slum residents grew from 650 million in 1990 to 1 billion in 2018. Existing explanations for slum growth focus on rural-urban migration and poverty. While these factors are relevant for rapidly urbanizing low-income countries, slum growth is frequent in highly urbanized, middle-income countries in Latin America. This paper provides evidence from Brazil that local government actions can increase slum growth without changes in poverty or immigration. Using a regression discontinuity design in close elections, I find that victories by a center-left, pro-poor party in the 2000 municipal election strongly increased the share of households living in slums in 2010 compared to 2000. I explore the mechanisms behind this result with a novel panel of census tracts and data on municipalities’ policies, expenditures, and sociodemographics. A more permissive attitude towards the formation of new slums is the main candidate to explain the observed effect.es_ES
dc.language.isoenes_ES
dc.subjectEconomíaes_ES
dc.subjectInvestigación socioeconómicaes_ES
dc.subjectPobrezaes_ES
dc.subjectViviendaes_ES
dc.titleThe Political Economy of Slum Growth: Evidence from Braziles_ES
dc.typeworkingPaperes_ES


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