ECONOMICS AND EVALUATION LINKS
Data
ADARE (Administrative Data Research and Evaluation)
AFDC/TANF Effective Tax Rates and Guarantees from Ziliak (2006)
Journal of Applied Econometrics Data Archive
Economics blogs
Green Economics (Matt Kahn)
Marginal
Revolution (
Au Courant (
Grant McCracken’s Economics and Anthropology Blog
Brian McCall’s Economics of Education Blog
Aid Watch (William Easterly’s blog)
Labor Economics Gateway (one-stop shopping … but they should learn how to spell “labor”)
University of Washington Economics Alumni Association
National Bureau of Economic Research
ECO5 Economics Gateway (lots of useful links!)
Preston McAfee’s free introductory economics textbook
Rebecca Thornton’s Amazing Page of Data
VoxEU (European economists’ policy writings)
Bureau of Labor Statistics Monthly Labor Review
McMaster Archive for the History of Economic Thought
MIT Open Courseware (includes course materials for many economics courses)
AEA list of economics conferences
Economics at
University of Michigan Economics Department
Michigan Graduate Economics Society Blog
Steve Lehrer’s vast list of economics links
Evaluation / Treatment Effects / Causal Effects
Michael Lechner’s group at St. Gallen (Sehr gut!)
Chis Winship’s page at Harvard (contains many further links)
ISR Quantitative
Methods Program at
Social Science Statistics Blog at Harvard
Applied statistics weblog at Columbia
Mark Lipsey’s center at Vanderbilt
David Freedman’s website at Berkeley
Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy
Impact Evaluation Social Network (run by 3ie)
Center for Evidence-Based Policy
Statistical Treatment
Rules
Research on Statistical Treatment Rules (from the Upjohn Institute)
Government Data and Evaluation Sites
National Center for Education Statistics (Lots of data here!)
United Kingdom Data Archive (Quite so!)
Education
Commission of the States Policy Database
Econometrics
Directory of econometrician web sites
Statistics
Local Polynomial Smoothing Movies
Links for graduate students and potential graduate students
Good advice from Prof. Lubotsky
Good
advice from Prof. Blattman
Humor
Journal of Obnoxious Statistics