Brazilian Municipal Fiscal Transfers and Electoral Malapportionment, 2004-2014

2004 to 2014 panel data on Brazilian municipalities, used to analyze the effect of electoral district malapportionment on discretionary federal and state fiscal transfers. The dataset was created by Carin Caroline Deda using statistical econometric regression methods. It examines how political and institutional factors influence the distribution of public resources.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between electoral malapportionment and public spending based on the described political factors.
• Analyzing panel data trends in fiscal transfers to Brazilian municipalities over the specified decade.
• Investigating the influence of institutional representation structures on discretionary expenditures as mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Covers a defined 11-year time period from 2004 to 2014.
• Focuses on a specific research question linking political representation to fiscal outcomes.

Limitations

• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Carin Caroline Deda

Collection Method

Statistical econometric regression with panel data.

Time Range

2004-2014

Geography

Brazilian municipalities