Resources

Economics Virtual Seminar Calendar

Economics Virtual Seminar Calendar: (https://ideas.repec.org/v/)

Economics Conferences (Compiled by Anne M. Burton and Barton Willage)

Ph.D. fellowships and deadlines

Macromom’s blog page

Advice for Phd Students in Economics

Include ChatGpt in your Rstudio

Econ grad advice by Chris Roth and David Schindler

Amy Finkelstein’s advice on how to write great research papers in economics

The 2023 𝗔𝗘𝗔 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘀

2020 AEA Continuing Education Webcasts: Mastering Mostly Harmless Econometrics (Alberto Abadie, Joshua Angrist, and Christopher Walters

Data resources

Federal Bureau of Investigation Crime Data Explorer

WISQARS Fatal Injury Data Visualization

Find Economic Articles with Data and codes

RTutor: Interactive R Problem Sets with data and solution

If you want a summary of papers and a reference list use https://perplexity.ai

Rdatasets is a collection of 2127 datasets

Useful data resources

Search like a pro in google

Sebastian Tello-Trillo’s resources: Where to find data? pdf version | Resources page

Research data search in google

Google Public data repository

Our World in Data

Abortion Dataset

The Fjelstul World Cup Database By Josh Fjelstul

Data Resources on Medical Providers:

Repository of CMS hospital cost report (HCRIS) data and processing code:

Data Resources on Health Care Encounter Data:

Hospital Financial Characteristics Datasets:

LobbyView dataset: Advancing data science research in interest group politics

Sebastian Bauhoff’s Household datasets for development economic research:

NPPES Downloadable file:

Mediacare data download page:

J-PAL’s Catalog of Administrative Data Sets

Kimberley H Geissler expressed in her Twitter that she is willing to provide data for cannabis use and SUD.

Kevin N.Griffith’s data on Appointment Wait Times for Primary and Specialty Care in Veterans Health Administration Facilities vs. Community Medical Centers

Grid cell-month environmental and conflict data (AfroGrid) by Justin Schon and and Ore Koren

Get PUMS data on ACS

Christoph Kronenberg’s way to Literature review plots

CMS Hospital Compare Data 2004-2016:

The Early County Business Pattern Files: 1946-1974

OPEN ICPSR dataset:

Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS):

NASA’s Common Metadata Repository (CMR) with 350 datasets

Longitudinal datasets of potential interest to health economists

International GIS Data: Global:

TAMU GeoServices:

Accessing OpenStreetMap data with R:

Mapping Routes - mapping routes with tidygeocoder and osrm:

Road Routing In R:

Zoning ATLAS:

National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses (NSSRN):

Data is plural archive: and Spreadsheet of data list

Education Data at Your Fingertips:

The General Social Survey:

Tidy USDA data in R:

DataUSA.io:

Alex Cookson webscraped data: and (https://github.com/tacookson/data)

Dat.CMS.gov:

AEA data sources:

NBER Public Use Data Archive:

IRS data:

Transport for London open data:

Institute for Development Research Riinvest:

Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS):

GapMinder data:

Employment, unemployment and economic inactivity for people aged 16 and over and aged from 16 to 64 (seasonally adjusted):

Kaggle dataset: codes

US CBS Supplemental Surveys:

The Early County Business Pattern Files: 1946-1974

The European Social Survey (ESS):

Analyze Boston Dataset:

The DHS dataset:

Data.gov:

Global Data Hub On Human Trafficking:

RESDAC data and prices:

Higher Ed Data Stories:

Public Safety Lab data:

Facebook Social Connectedness Index:

American Community Survey Data via FTP:

National Welfare Data:

Union Membership, Coverage, and Earnings from the CPS:

Input-Output matrix from 1997-2020:

Online Tool Provides Individual Energy Sustainability Scores data:

Bureau of Economic Analysis data: bulk downloads

U.S. Bureau Of Labor Statistics data:

Abortion Access Dashboard:

World Bank’s Open Night Lights tutorial:

The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) :

Teaching resources

Quant Econ

Time-Series Econometrics (James H. Stock, Mark W. Watson)

Advanced Data Analytics in Economics By Nick Hagerty

introductory environmental and resource economics By John Whitehead

Kevin Murphy teaching developing the monocentric city model 6 videos

Pen and paper exercises in machine learning: michaelgutmann github

Videos’ to teach economics: Economics Media Library or econ.video

Teaching economics with baking cakes: (https://www.bakeonomics350.com/spring2022)

Teaching Health Economics in the time of COVID-19: (https://www.healtheconomics.org/page/COVID19)

Using Music to Teach Agricultural, Applied, and Environmental Economics: (https://www.aaea.org/UserFiles/file/AETR_2021_002RProofFinal.pdf)

Illustration of the two-way fixed effects estimator decomposition: (https://hhsievertsen.shinyapps.io/twowayfedecomp/)

Lists of statistical packages for Recent Difference-in-Differences methods (https://twitter.com/lihua_lei_stat/status/1480993321900146688)

Implementing fixed effects panel models in R: (http://karthur.org/2019/implementing-fixed-effects-panel-models-in-r.html)

Asjad Naqvi’s website to that tracks the recent developments in the Difference-in-Difference (DiD) literature (https://asjadnaqvi.github.io/DiD/)

Literature on Recent Advances in Applied Micro Methods: (https://christinecai.github.io/PublicGoods/applied_micro_methods.pdf)

Health Economics Teaching Materials Repository: (https://www.ashecon.org/teaching-materials-repository/)

Amanda Gregg’s statistics/econometrics simulations site

Christine Cai’s resources of applied econometrics, PhD-level class materials, coding in Stata and R (https://christinecai.github.io/items/PublicGoods.html)

Seeing Theory A visual intoduction to probablit and statistics: (https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/)

The recordings of our Symposium on the Economics and Law of Pharmaceutical Regulation: (https://vimeo.com/showcase/8070909)

What are the most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years?: (http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/stat50.pdf)

All the codes needed for applied econometrics: (https://sites.google.com/site/waynelinchang/r-code)

Masayuki Kudamatsu’s Tips for economist to apply phd in economics, proceed life with Phd, choosing research topic: (https://sites.google.com/site/mkudamatsu/tips4economists)

NickHK education videos: (https://www.nickchk.com/videos.html)cy

BREAD-IGC Virtual Ph.D. Course, Spring 2022 (https://www.theigc.org/event/bread-igc-virtual-phd-course-spring-2022/)

Econometrics Academy(https://sites.google.com/site/econometricsacademy/)

Ivan Canay’s Econometrics course ECON 480 and ECO 481

Applied Econometrics at NYU Stern: (https://github.com/chrisconlon/applied_metrics)

Machine Learning by Jordan Boyd-Graber: (https://home.cs.colorado.edu/~jbg/teaching/CSCI_5622/)

A history of econometric debates: (https://twitter.com/Undercoverhist/status/1105851715461570560)

Books

Geocomputation with R and Python

Econometric data science, forecasting, and time series by Francis X. Diebold

Handbook of Regression Modeling in People Analytics by Keith McNulty

Structural Bayesian Techniques for Experimental and Behavioral Economics by James Bland

Data Management in Large-Scale Education Research By Crystal Lewis

Chicago Price Theory with video

Introduction to Geographic Data Science by Francisco Rowe codes

[Introduction to Data Science by Rafael A. Irizarry] (http://rafalab.dfci.harvard.edu/dsbook/)

MUST READ Statistical Tools for Causal Inference by Sylvain Chabé-Ferret

Tidy Finance book by Christoph Scheuch, Stefan Voigt, and Patrick Weiss

Data Analysis for Business, Economics, and Policy, by Gábor Kézdi

Tidy Modeling with R by Max Kuhn and Julia Silge

Geocomputation with R

Stacked tilted maps

Computational Thinking for Social Scientists

Applied Economics with R by Hans H. Sievertsen

Introduction to R by Hans H. Sievertsen

The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality, by Nick Huntington-Klein and data resources

Causal Inference: The Mixtape, by Scott Cunningham

Crime by the Numbers: A Criminologist’s Guide to R, by Jacob Kaplan

Models in Microeconomic Theory (‘She’ Edition), by Martin J. Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein

Supervised Machine Learning for Text Analysis in R by Emil Hvitfeldt, Julia Silge

Introduction to Probability for Data Science by Stanley H. Chan

Mastering Shiny by Hadley Wickham

Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps by Colin Fay, Sébastien Rochette, Vincent Guyader and Cervan Girard

Advanced R by Hadley Wickham

Shiny tips & tricks for improving your apps and solving common problems

Doing Economics

Causal Inference for The Brave and True

Analyzing US Census Data: Methods, Maps, and Models in R by Kyle Walker

Big Book of R which lists all the book avialable using R

EconML User Guide

Data Science at the Command Line Obtain, Scrub, Explore, and Model Data with Unix Power Tools

Mastering Spark with R by Javier Luraschi, Kevin Kuo, Edgar Ruiz

Regression and Other Stories by Andrew Gelman, Jennifer Hill, and Aki Vehtari

Others

The Policy Impacts Library

The most powerful feature that Twitter has: Advanced search

Recover data from an Image

AEA’s Professional Development Resources

[All the financial advice you’ll ever need fits on a single index card, by Harold Pollack](All the financial advice you’ll ever need fits on a single index card) and his Twitter (https://twitter.com/haroldpollack)

One percenter’s health care reform researches

10 fallacies and paradoxes in statistics

Causal design patterns for data analysts

Tweetorial from regression to estimating causal effects with machine learning.

AI summarizes paper so that a second grader can understand tldrpaper

Lists of book, data, tools, tutorials, blogs and articles, courses, and videos about causality

AEA suggests the following 33 categories JEP Articles Recommended for Classroom Use

Danny Baldus-Strauss’ mega-thread of the 25 best threads he has come across on Twitter. I loved the The Most Powerful Paradoxes of Life.

Find the salary of Assistant Professors

Hacking Wordle and Absurdle

91 of the Oracle of Omaha’s best quotes

Laurent Bergé’s Running regressions in R without the hassle

Foundations of Machine Learning by Maximilian Kasy

Foundations Of Machine Learning by Instructor by David S. Rosenberg

15 big disruptive ideas 2021

How to choose your career

Listen to the radio from any where in the world

Leadership Economics by Aaron Phipps

Courses for causal inference

Golden comments on Double Machine Learning

ML Based Causal Inference

Free Causal Inference Resources BY Matteo Courthoud

Introduction to Modern Causal Inference By Alejandro Schuler Mark van der Laan

Which causal inference book you should read: A flowchart and a list of short book reviews: (https://www.bradyneal.com/which-causal-inference-book)

Miguel Hernán’s Causal Diagrams: Draw Your Assumptions Before Your Conclusions: (https://www.edx.org/course/causal-diagrams-draw-your-assumptions-before-your)

UPenn’s course: A Crash Course in Causality: Inferring Causal Effects from Observational Data: (https://www.coursera.org/learn/crash-course-in-causality)

Columbia University’s Causal Inference-I (https://www.coursera.org/learn/causal-inference) and Causal Inference-II (https://www.coursera.org/learn/causal-inference-2)

Andrew Heiss’s course materials from Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University: Program Evaluation for Public Service, Microeconomics for Public Policy, and Data Visualization (https://www.andrewheiss.com/teaching/)

Data science for economists: (https://github.com/uo-ec607/lectures)

Ben Elsner’s Causal Inference – Online Lectures (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyvUJLHD8IsJCB7ALqwjRG1BjL5JxE__H)

Brady Neal - Causal Inference (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXBPtpBhGqo&list=PLoazKTcS0RzZ1SUgeOgc6SWt51gfT80N0)

Online Causal Inference Seminar: (https://sites.google.com/view/ocis/)

Writing

How To Write the Abstract

How to write paper, checklists, Claudia Sahm’ We need to talk more blog post

Real footage of Stata user using R

Journals with short paper options where economists might publish