Replication data for: “Money Talks? Financial Incentives and Party Support for Candidates from Underrepresented Groups”

This dataset replicates the analyses in "Money Talks? Financial Incentives and Party Support for Candidates from Underrepresented Groups", which studies how vote-based public financing incentives affect party behavior toward candidates from underrepresented groups in Brazil. A 2021 reform doubled the weight of votes cast for women and Afro-Brazilian candidates in federal lower-house races only, creating a within-state, same-year contrast with state-level races (no incentive). We assemble party-level panels and candidate-level microdata to test whether parties expanded nominations and redirected resources toward these groups and whether such efforts translated into votes and seats. The empirical strategy relies on Difference-in-Differences with event-study diagnostics and doubly-robust specifications.