Incentives and Privatization in the Brazilian Water and Sanitation Sector: indicator analysis between 2006 to 2019
Synthetic Differences in Differences; Sanitation; Privatizations
: In 2015 Brazil formalized the commitment among the members of the United Nations to universalize access to water and sewage by 2030 and, for that, it will have partial management assistance from the private sector. Through the National Sanitation Information System (SNIS) in the period 2006 to 2019, we will examine the incentives for municipalities to switch to private management. Using Synthetic Differences in Differences estimation, we assess sanitation quality indicators to measure the difference between private and public management. The results indicate an increase in providers' productivity and investments after the privatization processes; we did not find a statistically significant change in other indicators.