Brazilian Municipal Requests for Federal Transfers, 2009-2016

2009-2016 microdata on applications for discretionary federal transfers to municipalities in Brazil, used in a regression discontinuity design. The dataset was created by researcher Fernando Meireles to analyze the effect of partisan alignment on resource requests. It shows that mayors from the president's party requested substantially more resources than opposition mayors.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the impact of partisan alignment on intergovernmental transfers based on the described regression discontinuity design.
• Modeling municipal demand for federal resources based on political affiliation variables mentioned in the description.
• Studying coalition dynamics in federal systems based on the described variation among coalition party mayors.

Strengths

• Covers an 8-year period from 2009 to 2016.
• Based on microdata for detailed municipal-level analysis.
• Used in a published academic study employing a regression discontinuity design.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Fernando Meireles

Collection Method

Microdata on applications for discretionary transfers from the Brazilian federal government to municipalities.

Time Range

2009-2016

Geography

Brazil (municipal level)