Replication Data for a Decentralized Water Policy Study in Brazil

A replication package for the study "Building Resilience in the Global South: Evidence from a Decentralized Water Policy in Brazil." It contains the code, data, and variable dictionary required to reproduce all results from the main text and online appendix. The dataset was authored by Marcelo Goncalves and is hosted on Harvard Dataverse.

Use Cases

• Replicate econometric or statistical results based on the provided code and data.
• Analyze the impact of decentralized water policy on resilience metrics mentioned in the study.
• Validate the study's methodology using the included variable dictionary and raw data.

Strengths

• Includes a complete replication package with code, data, and a variable dictionary.
• Hosted on Harvard Dataverse, which suggests a formal academic repository.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse

Collection Method

Likely collected for academic research on water policy.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-02 04:13:15; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Brazil