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 [folder link]
- 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.
- 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.
- Read the README for more information.
- Continuously under improvement. For corrections and suggestions, please just email me.
- Match for TSE and IBGE municipality identificators [folder link]
- This data set matches the identificators and names of Brazilian municipalities across the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE) and the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e EstatÃstica (IBGE).
- Covers years 1996 to 2012.
- It also makes the match consistent across years.
- TSE and IBGE ids and name strings change across years.
- Municipalities are created or cease to exist across years.
- Read the README for more information.
- Continuously under improvement. For corrections and suggestions, please just email me.