10.7910/DVN/K9LYS9 Moraes, Vinicius Macedo de Vinicius Macedo de Moraes https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8645-5564 USP Crozatti, Jaime Jaime Crozatti https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3789-8761 USP Machado, Gabriel Santana Gabriel Santana Machado https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3789-8761 FGV Harvard Dataverse 2024 Social Sciences Campos, Luiz Augusto Luiz Augusto Campos Revista DADOS 2024-09-17 2024-09-17 757 178554 10284 1212620 26618 281150 271657 application/x-stata-syntax application/octet-stream type/x-r-syntax application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document application/octet-stream application/x-gzip 1.0 Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. Data from the article "Federalismo e Desigualdades Horizontais em Educação: Conectando os Anseios Equalizadores por meio de uma Tipologia de Municípios", by Vinicius Macedo de Moraes, Jaime Crozatti, and Gabriel Santana Machado, published in Revista DADOS v. 68, n. 3 de 2025. Federalism and Horizontal Inequalities in Education: Connecting Equalizing Aspirations through a Typology of Municipalities Seeking to advance the understanding of the relationship between federalism and horizontal inequalities in Brazil, the objective of this article is to understand the role of the Union in reducing municipal inequities in education beyond the financial dimension of municipal revenues. With the clustering method, the work creates a typology of municipalities based on the functioning structure of educational networks and analyzes how this typology relates to their levels of efficiency in public spending, calculated from the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The results demonstrate that the profile of municipalities is one of the determinants of the efficiency of public educational expenditure. Thus, centrally designed national policies that aim to reduce educational inequities by guaranteeing equal conditions among subnational entities cannot ignore their operating structure to implement the respective public policies. Keywords: federalism; equity; federative coordination; efficiency of public spending; Fundeb.