Pedro Barbosa

Happy to share our latest article! It analyzes the different trends of family policies in Latin America during the 2010s, when there was an increasing demand for care services in the region @gbritocaruso @thirdworldq tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

1/ If you work with #AmericasBarometer data in R, you’ve probably rebuilt the same workflow over & over: labels, weights, rescaling, plots, exports. We built the lapop R package to make these workflows faster, cleaner, & reproducible. Now on CRAN: install.packages("lapop") 🧵

Público do Bolsa Família preencheu 56% dos empregos criados no 1° bimestre no país. De acordo com dados do Caged, do Ministério do Trabalho e Emprego, público dos programas sociais é hoje a principal ocupação das novas vagas de trabalho no Brasil. istoedinheiro.com.br/bolsa-familia-…

True for comparative politics too?

¿Cómo se financia el Estado de bienestar? Esta nueva publicación de @CUP_PoliSci - una obra de @KorehMichal, @Olijacques89 y @danielbeland - trata un tema clave en la política. Una buena lectura. Descarga libre: cambridge.org/core/elements/…

@EconomiaXavier Acho bem duvidoso: x.com/i/status/19296…

Pessoalmente acho controle sintético um péssimo instrumento de econometria.

@jpazvd Great!

📊 Too much global development data still lives in spreadsheets. But modern analysis requires data acquisition as code. Today I’m pleased to share that the unicefData R package is now available on CRAN, providing direct programmatic access to the UNICEF Data Warehouse. Researchers, policymakers, and analysts can now retrieve 700+ internationally comparable indicators on children and women directly from R — enabling reproducible analytics, transparent workflows, and faster evidence generation. Install install.packages("unicefData") Example library(unicefData) df <- unicefData( indicator = "CME_MRY0T4", countries = c("BRA","USA","IND"), year = "2015:2023" ) Why this matters Reliable evidence depends not only on good data, but also on how easily that data can be accessed, reproduced, and reused. The unicefData package helps bridge the gap between official statistics and modern data science workflows by enabling: • Access to 700+ indicators across countries and years • Integration with reproducible research pipelines • Use of SDMX international statistical standards • Consistent interfaces across R, Python, and Stata Making official statistics more accessible, reproducible, and interoperable is an important step toward strengthening evidence for policies that improve outcomes for children. 📦 CRAN cran.r-project.org/package=unicef… #OpenData #OfficialStatistics #RStats #DataForChildren #ReproducibleResearch

@AnriaSantiago @UChicagoPress Congratulations, dear Prof. Santiago! I can't wait to read it! I hope you and Prof. Kenneth can eventually come to Brazil to present it!

Happy to share that "Polarization and Democracy in Latin America" (co-authored with Ken Roberts) is out now with @UChicagoPress and available in multiple formats. Quick 🧵 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

City of God (2002) doesn’t feel like a debut. It feels like a filmmaker arriving fully formed. The energy, the precision, the lived-in chaos. A peak so high it almost ends the conversation.

Desconhecia, mas o Lars Hansen gravou um podcast para a CBR falando sobre as limitações das políticas públicas baseadas em evidências. Estou ouvindo e é incrivelmente lúcido. Muito interessante ver um dos maiores econometristas vivos criticar e fornecer argumentos epistêmicos sobre os limites da empiria em políticas públicas: open.spotify.com/episode/5AahXo…

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Happy to share that our review of Lupu’s & Pontusson’s book, Unequal Democracies, is now out in the journal Politikon. politikon.iapss.org/index.php/poli…

Guess the goalscorer Level: Hard

Handbook of Comparative Political Economy This handbook, edited by  Marino Regini, looks very good. It covers the latest research on topics such as the various models of capitalism. Download the Table of Contents & Introduction here: elgaronline.com/edcollbook/boo…

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Want a good starting point for learning good principles of Dataviz? I'd highly recommend Andrew Heiss's course--Data Visualization with R. Reading materials, slides, lecture videos, examples, code, etc. are all posted for free on his website.

@JohnHolbein1 The best: clauswilke.com/dataviz/

Dataviz should be a mandatory short course for PhD students. So many bad figures floating around these days.

Atualização do📦{censobr} p/ baixar dados do censo demográfico em #rstats. Novidades do #censobr v.0.5.0: - Dados e dicionário de agregados por setor censitario de 2022 e 2000 - Possivel escolher a pasta de cache persistente - Download de dados mais rapido ipeagit.github.io/censobr/index.…

@Wescrey Monstro

Eu já sofri na mão do Luiz Soares, minha solidariedade aos palmeirenses