Abstract
Violence against women, especially domestic violence, is a constantly debated issue in Brazil that generates great social and economic damage. Inspired by the article by Perova and Reynolds (2017), this article seeks to evaluate whether the implementation of the Specialized Women’s Police Stations helped to combat this type of violence. Using different databases from 2004 to 2018 and a flexible conditional differences-in-differences model, due to the heterogeneous application of these police stations over time, this study found a negative impact on the female homicide rate per hundred thousand inhabitants. The negative effect occurs between five and six years after the implementation of these units, compared to municipalities that did not receive a specialized police station. These results reinforce the importance of this type of public policy in combating violence against women.
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