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Graduate textbooks put these equiations in context."}, {"name": "IGM Economic Experts Panel", "url": "http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel", "description": "Top economists reflect on policy-related issues. 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Has data import plugins."}, {"name": "IMF Data", "url": "http://www.imf.org/en/Data", "description": "The standard reference for macro data."}, {"name": "Quandl", "url": "https://www.quandl.com/", "description": "Aggregate financial and economic data from multiple sources. Some data vendors sell their data via this service. Good integration with statistical software."}, {"name": "MEDevEcon", "url": "https://sites.google.com/site/medevecon/devecondata", "description": "Data related to development economics."}, {"name": "Monetary Economics: Data Sources", "url": "https://sites.google.com/site/davesmant/various/data-sets-sources", "description": "Overview of macro data sources."}, {"name": "OFFSTATS", "url": "http://www.offstats.auckland.ac.nz/", "description": "Links to official data sources by country and subject."}, {"name": "International Open Government Dataset Search", "url": "https://logd.tw.rpi.edu//node/9903", "description": "Over 1,000,000 government datasets. When works, this service looks [like this](http://web.archive.org/web/20140815054106/http://logd.tw.rpi.edu/node/9903). Otherwise, you'll see a 403 error."}, {"name": "Dataset Search Engine", "url": "https://cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=002720237717066476899:v2wv26idk7m", "description": "Google-based search over 200 data sources, including those mentioned here. You can use Google [search operators](http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html) here."}, {"name": "StackExchange Open Data", "url": "http://opendata.stackexchange.com/", "description": "If you haven't found the data you were looking for, you can ask it here."}, {"name": "Reddit /r/datasets", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets", "description": "One more place to request datasets."}]}, {"name": "Software", "parent": "Research", "entries": [{"name": "LaTeX", "url": "https://www.latex-project.org/", "description": "Economists write in LaTeX because it handles mathematics and references better than Word or LibreOffice. If you write regularly, LaTeX is worth learning."}, {"name": "LyX", "url": "http://www.lyx.org/", "description": "A free and simple editor for LaTeX."}, {"name": "Zotero", "url": "https://www.zotero.org/", "description": "Bibliography management. Also install (a) Zotero browser plugin to import papers from RePEc to your library; (b) Zotero-LyX plugin to cite literature easily."}, {"name": "Git", "url": "https://git-scm.com/downloads", "description": "A version control system. Useful if you want to revert changes done months ago or collaborate with other authors. DropBox also has version control, but Git is more explicit. A [short intro](http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/). Or use [GitHub Desktop](https://desktop.github.com/) if you like it simple."}, {"name": "Mendeley", "url": "https://www.mendeley.com", "description": "Bibliography management. Support synchronization on multiple plateforms: Mac, Windows, Ipad, Phone..."}, {"name": "Stata", "url": "http://www.stata.com/", "description": "An industry standard for statistical computations in economics. Free alternatives:"}, {"name": "Matlab", "url": "http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/", "description": "An industry standard for modeling and numerical optimization in economics. Free alternatives:"}, {"name": "Mathematica", "url": "https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/", "description": "Symbolic computations. Free alternative"}, {"name": "Julia", "url": "https://julialang.org/", "description": "An open source scientific computing softerware."}, {"name": "GitHub", "url": "https://github.com/", "description": "A repository for code and data. Publishing research here is not a common practice, but it's more convenient that alternatives (university home page, DropBox, etc.)."}, {"name": "IPython Notebooks", "url": "http://ipython.org/", "description": "An interactive alternative to LaTeX and Word. See examples how notebooks look like in [data-science-ipython-notebooks (\u2b5025k)](https://github.com/donnemartin/data-science-ipython-notebooks) and [the gallery (\u2b5016k)](https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/A-gallery-of-interesting-IPython-Notebooks)."}, {"name": "Most common programs used by Economists", "url": "http://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/5853/most-common-programs-used-by-economists", "description": "A community-managed list of common software."}, {"name": "Software for Researchers: New Data and Applications", "url": "https://antontarasenko.com/2016/01/14/software-for-research/", "description": "Covers software mentioned above and some more."}]}, {"name": "Useful Materials", "parent": "Research", "entries": [{"name": "How to efficiently manage a statistical analysis project?", "url": "http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/2910/how-to-efficiently-manage-a-statistical-analysis-project", "description": ""}, {"name": "Economics Blog Search", "url": "https://cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=002720237717066476899:i_zfef5fawa", "description": "A Google-based search service for aforementioned blogs."}, {"name": "AEA Blog Directory", "url": "https://www.aeaweb.org/rfe/showCat.php?cat_id=96", "description": "The list of major economic blogs."}, {"name": "StackExchange Economics", "url": "http://economics.stackexchange.com/", "description": "A Q\\&A website where you can ask and answer questions."}]}, {"name": "Undergraduate", "parent": "Career", "entries": []}, {"name": "Graduate", "parent": "Career", "entries": [{"name": "American Economic Association: Graduate Training in Economics", "url": "https://www.aeaweb.org/gradstudents/index.php", "description": "Overview of the programs, requirements, and advices to those considering a PhD program in economics."}]}, {"name": "Faculty", "parent": "Career", "entries": [{"name": "Job Openings for Economists", "url": "https://www.aeaweb.org/joe/", "description": "The job board by the American Economic Association."}, {"name": "Econ Jobs Postings", "url": "https://econjobmarket.org/positions", "description": "List of academic job openings."}, {"name": "Economics Job Market Rumors", "url": "http://www.econjobrumors.com/wiki.php", "description": "List of job openings for economists. 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Updated regularly."}, {"name": "Economics Games", "url": "http://economics-games.com/", "description": "Free online classroom games for teaching economics."}, {"name": "Quantitative Economics", "url": "https://lectures.quantecon.org/py/index.html", "description": "Lecture series by Thomas J. Sargent and John Stachurski using Python computational tools."}, {"name": "Top 100 Economics Blogs", "url": "https://www.intelligenteconomist.com/top-economics-blogs-2016/", "description": "Links to popular economics blogs, with brief descriptions."}]}], "name": ""} |