Data & Analytics Tools

Open-source tools for data analysis, poverty measurement, and accessing international development data — available on SSC/RePEc, CRAN, and PyPI.

Featured Data Access Tools

Tool	Description
wbopendata	Access 29,000+ indicators from 51 World Bank databases directly from Stata, covering 296 countries from 1960 to present	SSSC
unicefData	Trilingual library for downloading UNICEF child welfare indicators via SDMX API with cross-language test parity	R Python Stata
unicefstats-mcp	MCP server providing AI assistants access to 790+ UNICEF child-focused indicators across 200+ countries via SDMX API	PyPI
datalibweb	Stata frontend for the World Bank microdata API, enabling access to global, regional, and country microdata catalogs	SGitHub

Module	Description
ainequal	Compute inequality and concentration indices with analytical standard errors	SSSC
apoverty	FGT and other poverty measures with standard errors and hypothesis tests	SSSC
mpovline	Poverty measures at multiple poverty lines simultaneously	SSSC
isopoverty	Graph iso-poverty curves showing growth-redistribution tradeoffs	SSSC
alorenz	Graph Lorenz and concentration curves with confidence intervals	SSSC
hoi	Human Opportunity Index for measuring inequality of opportunity (Barros et al.)	SSSC
mol	Measure of effective literacy using the Basu-Foster framework	SSSC
groupdata	Poverty and inequality estimation from grouped or tabulated data	SGitHub

Module	Description
adecomp	Shapley decomposition of changes in poverty and inequality indicators	SSSC
drdecomp	Datt-Ravallion decomposition of poverty changes into growth and redistribution	SSSC
skdecomp	Shapley value decomposition of changes in the income distribution	SSSC
dfl	DiNardo-Fortin-Lemieux counterfactual density decomposition	SSSC
changemean	Decompose poverty changes into growth and distributional effects	SSSC

Module	Description
sae	Unit-level small area estimation for poverty mapping using the ELL methodology	SSSC
fhsae	Fay-Herriot area-level EBLUP small area estimation methods	SSSC

Module	Description
grqreg	Graph quantile regression coefficients across the distribution	SSSC
factortest	Bartlett and Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin tests for factor analysis suitability	SSSC
crtest	Cramer-Ridder test for pooling states in multinomial logit models	SSSC
turnbull	Turnbull nonparametric estimator for willingness-to-pay from contingent valuation	SSSC
spike	Spike model for zero willingness-to-pay in contingent valuation surveys	SSSC

Module	Description
wbopendata	Access 29,000+ World Bank indicators from 51 databases via Stata	SSSC
unicefdata	Download UNICEF child welfare indicators via SDMX API	SSSC
groupfunction	Fast replacement for collapse supporting multiple aggregation functions	SSSC
outtable	Export Stata matrix to LaTeX table with formatting options	SSSC
yaml	Read, write, and manipulate YAML configuration files for reproducible workflows	SSSC

Package	Description
unicefData	Download UNICEF child welfare indicators via SDMX API with consistent R interface	CRAN

Package	Description
unicefdata	Download UNICEF child welfare indicators via SDMX API with query status codes, year filtering, and MRV support (v2.4)	PyPI
unicefstats-mcp	MCP server providing AI assistants access to 790+ UNICEF child-focused indicators across 200+ countries (EQA: 0.984)	PyPI
wb-api-repo	World Bank API data extraction scripts in Python	GitHub

Institutional projects I have led or co-developed for reproducible data access, education measurement, and scalable analytics.

Project	Description
LearningPoverty	Learning Poverty indicator — combining schooling and learning data to measure the share of children unable to read by age 10
GLAD	Global Learning Assessment Database — harmonized learning assessment datasets at student and country level
EduAnalyticsToolkit	EduAnalytics team toolkit for data management, documentation, and analytics

Project	Description
package	Stata module to create GitHub dissemination packages
useful_tweaks	Useful tweaks to user-written ado files

All tools are open source and available for academic and research use.