Below are links to materials that are useful in my research and maybe will be in yours too. My philosophy is that public goods must be made public.

• Working Structure for Empirical Papers
  • This folder provides an all-encompassing working structure for empirical papers. It organizes every step of the process: merging and cleaning (several) data sets, performing analyses (tables, figures, regressions), writing the article itself and also presentations.
  • Customize to fit your project.
  • Particularly useful for work involving multiple coauthors and RAs.
  • Principles: functional folder structure, modularity and automation.
  • Read the README file for more information.
  • References: Gentzkow & Shapiro (2014).
  • Continuously under improvement. Suggestions are welcome, please just email me.

• Matching IDs for Brazilian municipalities. [folder link]
  • This data set matches identificators and names of Brazilian municipalities across various institutions (IBGE, TSE, STN, and Comarcas).
  • It tracks what municipalities existed in 1991, 2000, 2010, and currently.
  • Check out the README for more information.

• Match for TSE and Congress federal deputy identificators [folder link]
  • This data set matches the names of federal deputies between the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE) and the Congress in Brazil. It also creates a unique id number and name for each person across years, covering 1998 to 2010.
  • Check out the README for more information.