Caio Sousa dos Reis Silva prepared this dataset for the dissertation 'Parliamentary Earmarks as Public Policy'. It contains municipality-level panel data for Brazil, including an annual measure of compositional change in municipal expenditure and control variables like real growth in expenditure per capita and municipal GDP per capita. Monetary variables are harmonized in constant 2024 BRL using the IPCA inflation index.
Use Cases
- Analyzing the relationship between parliamentary earmarks and changes in municipal budget allocation based on the central outcome variable.
- Modeling municipal fiscal behavior using control variables like real growth in total expenditure per capita and municipal GDP per capita.
- Studying the dynamics of health and education expenditure shares within total municipal spending.
- Conducting econometric panel regressions on Brazilian public finance at the municipality-year level.
Strengths
- Data is structured as municipality-level panels indexed by Brazilian municipality code (Cod_IBGE) and year.
- Monetary variables were harmonized in constant 2024 BRL using the IPCA inflation index published by IBGE.
- Files are described as final analytical datasets used directly in a regression workflow.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Freshness should be verified as the last update timestamp is 2026-05-18 21:50:39.
Provenance
- Source
- Public administrative sources, primarily SICONFI and related municipal statistical inputs.
- Collection Method
- Prepared by Caio Sousa dos Reis Silva for the specific purpose of the dissertation’s analytical pipeline.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-18 21:50:39
- Geography
- Brazilian municipalities