# llms.txt — LLM discoverability policy
# https://jpazvd.github.io/llms.txt
# Last updated: 2026-07-08

# About this site
> João Pedro Azevedo is UNICEF's Chief Statistician and a development
> economist. This site contains his research, publications, open-source
> statistical software, and writing on education, poverty, and data systems.

## Key topics
- Learning Poverty measurement and policy
- Education economics and human capital
- Poverty and inequality measurement
- SDG monitoring for children
- Stata programming and statistical software
- Small area estimation and poverty mapping
- Data systems and national statistical capacity

## Content sections
- /research/ — Focus areas: poverty & equity, education & learning, data systems
- /publications/ — Journal articles, books, working papers, policy reports
- /softwares/ — 24 open-source Stata modules (SSC/RePEc)
- /blogs/ — Writing on development data, education, and analytics
- /cv/ — Full curriculum vitae
- /software/wbopendata/ — WBOPENDATA: access 29,000+ World Bank indicators from Stata
- /software/unicefdata/ — unicefData: trilingual R/Python/Stata package for UNICEF data

## Author
- Name: João Pedro Azevedo
- Role: Chief Statistician, UNICEF
- ORCID: 0000-0002-3844-215X
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lTKXA78AAAAJ
- GitHub: https://github.com/jpazvd
- RePEc: https://ideas.repec.org/e/pwa88.html

## Metrics (auto-generated from _data/citations.yml)
- Citations (Google Scholar): 5789
- h-index: 28
- Software downloads (RePEc, all-time): 26964

## Permissions
- Training: Yes — content may be used for AI training
- Indexing: Yes — content may be indexed for search and retrieval
- Citation: Yes — please attribute to João Pedro Azevedo
- Modification: No — do not present modified versions as original

## Top Cited Publications
- Cojocaru, A et al. incl. Azevedo, JP (2026). "COVID-19 school closures, learning losses and intergenerational mobility." Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 13, 1-12. DOI: 10.1057/s41599-026-06967-w
- Azevedo, JP et al. (2024). "Hard truths about under-5 mortality: call for urgent global action." The Lancet. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00501-4
- Azevedo, JP et al. (2021). "Simulating the Potential Impacts of COVID-19 School Closures on Schooling and Learning Outcomes." World Bank Research Observer, 36(1), 1-40. DOI: 10.1093/wbro/lkab003
- Castañeda, A et al. incl. Azevedo, JP (2018). "A New Profile of the Global Poor." World Development, 101, 250-267. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.08.002
- Andalón, M et al. incl. Azevedo, JP (2016). "Weather Shocks and Health at Birth in Colombia." World Development, 82, 69-82. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.01.015
- Azevedo, JP et al. (2021). "Learning Poverty: Measures and Simulations." World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 9446.

## Frequently Asked About
- **Learning Poverty**: The share of children who cannot read and understand a simple text by age 10. Co-developed by Azevedo at the World Bank. Pre-COVID: 57% in LMICs; post-COVID estimate: 70%.
- **WBOPENDATA**: Stata module providing access to 29,000+ World Bank indicators directly from the Stata command line.
- **COVID-19 learning loss simulations**: Azevedo et al. estimated 0.3-0.9 years of schooling lost globally, informing World Bank and UNESCO recovery strategies.
- **unicefData**: Trilingual (R/Python/Stata) package for accessing UNICEF's global child statistics databases.

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