1) How to write a term paper
a) Tomas Dvorak: http://minerva.union.edu/dvorakt/43/sample_paper.htm
b) Donald N. McCloskey, The Writing of Economics, Macmillan, 1987
c) Donald N. McCloskey, Economical Writing, Economic Inquiry, April 1985 (http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/docs/pdf/Article_86.pdf )
2) @ Boston College:
a) Library:
i) Databases: http://databases.bc.edu/V/?func=find-db-1
ii) e journals: http://metaquest.bc.edu:4000/sfx_local/az
iii) Bloomberg terminal: http://libguides.bc.edu/Bloomberg
iv) Barbara Mento:
(1) http://libguides.bc.edu/profile.php?uid=293
(2) http://libguides.bc.edu/economics
b) Economics departments:
i) http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec-p/data/ecfindata.php
ii) SUNY Oswego: http://www.oswego.edu/~economic/data.htm
iii) Steven Lehrer’s webpage: http://post.queensu.ca/~lehrers/econlink.htm
iv) Williams College: http://econ.williams.edu/students/online-resources
3) The Press and the Web
a) The press: Forbes, BusinessWeek, WSJ, Barrons, NYTimes, TheEconomist, Science, LexisNexis, etc etc
b) Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/
i) … access through the BC internet makes lots available
4) Journals … there are zillions, but to name a few:
a) American Economic Review
b) Journal of Political Economy
c) Journal of Economic Perspectives
d) Journal of Economic Literature
e) Journal of ABC Economics (ABC = Health, Labor, Sports, Urban, Law and, Education, Financial, Population, Regulatory, Agricultural and Resource, Environmental, etc etc etc)
5) General
a) WebEc Guide to Economics Data: http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/webecc8d.html
b) EcEdWeb (Economic Education Web): http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/econinfo.cfm
c) AEA's Resources for Economists: www.rfe.org
d) National Bureau of Economic Research: www.nber.org
e) Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
f) Data & Information Services Center: http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/newcatalog/browse.asp
g) html Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (Census data): http://www.ipums.umn.edu/usa/index
h) Economic Time Series Data: http://www.economagic.com/
i) Journalist's Toolbox: http://www.journaliststoolbox.org/
6) Policy Research Groups:
a) AEI: www.aei.org/
b) Brookings Institution: www.brookings.edu/
c) CATO Institute: www.cato.org/
d) Institute for Public Policy and Social Research: www.ippsr.msu.edu/
e) Mathematica Policy Research: www.mathematica-mpr.com/
f) Rand: www.rand.org/
g) Urban Institute: www.urban.org/
h) And research papers from staff at different government agencies, including FED/FRB, FTC, DOJ, DOE, FCC, EPA, DOT, EPA, HHS, etc etc
7) Major US Government data sources
a) Federal Digital System (FDSys): http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/
b) NTA’s US Databases: http://www.ntanet.org/tax-resources/us-databases.html
c) FedStats (links to over 100 gov’t agencies): http://www.fedstats.gov/
d) Bureau of Economic Analysis: http://www.bea.gov/
e) Bureau of Labor Statistics: www.bls.gov
f) Census Bureau: www.census.gov
i) US Counties Data
(1) Quickfacts: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/25000.html
(2) All Data Files: http://www.census.gov/support/USACdataDownloads.html
ii) Survey of Income and Program Participation: http://www.census.gov/sipp/
g) The U.S. Department of Commerce: http://www.commerce.gov/
h) St. Louis Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED): http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/
i) Federal Reserve Board of Governors: http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/default.htm
i) Survey of Consumer Finances: http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/scf/scfindex.htm
j) Statistical Abstract of the United States: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/
k) Data.gov: http://www.data.gov/
l) USA.gov: http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/Data.shtml
8) Industry associations and trade publications
a)
There are lots of them… and almost all of them make data available to
the public
1) Airwaves
a) FCC: http://www.fcc.gov/
i) and data: http://www.fcc.gov/data
b) FCC spectrum auction data: http://capcp.psu.edu/FCC/
2) Banking:
a) FDIC: http://www.fdic.gov/
i) Bank Data Guide: http://www.fdic.gov/bank/statistical/guide/index.html
b) FRB San Francisco: http://www.frbsf.org/banking/data/index.html
c) and see the Federal Reserve Bank links above
3) Education
a) National Center for Education Statistics: www.nces.ed.gov
b) US Department of Education: http://www.ed.gov/
c) Education Policy and Data Center: http://epdc.org/
d) Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education: http://www.cddre.org/
e) State Data ... many many states... here are a few:
i) Massachusetts: http://www.doe.mass.edu/mcas/results.html
ii) Texas: http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index3.aspx?id=3631&menu_id=793
iii) California: http://star.cde.ca.gov/
iv) Indiana: http://www.doe.in.gov/data/
v) North Carolina: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/data/reports/
vi) New Jersey: http://www.state.nj.us/education/data/
f) World Bank EdStats: http://data.worldbank.org/topic/education
g) Educational Testing Service (ETS): http://www.ets.org/
h) College Board - SAT Data and Reports: http://professionals.collegeboard.com/data-reports-research/sat
4) Environmental
a) EPA: http://www.epa.gov/
b) Air Pollution:
i) EPA: http://www.epa.gov/ttn/airs/airsaqs/
ii) California: http://www.arb.ca.gov/aqd/aqdcd/aqdcd.htm
c) Temperature and Precipitation:
i) Worldwide: http://climate.geog.udel.edu/~climate/html_pages/Global_ts_2007/README.global.p_ts_2007.html
ii) NOAA: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ghcnm/v2.php
iii) Berkeley Earth surface temperature: http://www.berkeleyearth.org/
d) NatureServe data resources: http://www.natureserve.org/getData/dataResources.jsp
e) Oil spills:
i) ITOPF: http://www.itopf.com/information-services/data-and-statistics/statistics/
ii) National Response Center: http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/download.html
iii) Deepwater Horizon: http://energy.gov/about-us/open-government/data-deepwater-horizon
5) Financial
a) Through the BC library: http://databases.bc.edu/V/?func=find-db-1
i) Go to Subject: Economics
(1) Center for Research in Securities Prices (CRSP)
(2) Compustat
(3) Interactive Data Corporation (IDC)
(4) WRDS
b) Financial Data Finder: http://www.fisher.osu.edu/fin/fdf/osudata.htm
c) SEC’s EDGAR (filings and forms): http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
d) Shiller’s data page: http://www.econ.yale.edu/~shiller/data.htm
e) French’s data page: http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/ken.french/data_library.html
6) Health
a) CDC WONDER: http://wonder.cdc.gov/
b) Department of Health and Human Services: http://www.hhs.gov/
c) National Health Statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
i) and at the state level: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/stprofiles.htm
d) National Inpatient Sample: http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/nisoverview.jsp
e) Medicare: http://data.medicare.gov/
f) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: https://www.cms.gov/home/rsds.asp
g) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: www.ahrq.gov/
h) National Library of Medicine: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hsrinfo/datasites.html
i) World Health Organization: http://www.who.int/health_topics/en/
j) Health and Retirement Study: http://hrsonline.isr.umich.edu/
k) Mathematica: http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/
l) UCLA Center: www.healthpolicy.ucla.edu/
7) Housing
a) Department of Housing and Urban Development: http://portal.hud.gov/portal/page/portal/HUD
b) Case Shiller Housing Price Indices: http://www.standardandpoors.com/indices/sp-case-shiller-home-price-indices/en/us/?indexId=spusa-cashpidff--p-us----
i) Also see Shiller’s data page above:
c) US Census: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing.html
i) American Housing Survey: http://www.census.gov/housing/ahs/
d) Federal Housing Finance Agency: http://www.fhfa.gov/Default.aspx?Page=14
e) National Association of Home Builders: http://www.nahb.org/page.aspx/landing/sectionID=113
f) GeoLytics: http://www.geolytics.com/
g) Zillow: http://www.zillow.com/
8) International/Development
a) International Monetary Fund: http://www.imf.org/external/data.htm
b) OECD: www.oecd.org
c) United Nations: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/inter-natlinks/sd_natstat.htm
d) World Bank: http://data.worldbank.org/
i) Doing Business: http://www.doingbusiness.org/
e) Poverty Action Lab: http://www.povertyactionlab.org/
i) Dataverse: http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/jpal
f) Penn World Table: http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/php_site/pwt_index.php
g) International Relations Data site: http://www.paulhensel.org/data.html
h) CIA World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
9) Labor
a) Bureau of Labor Statistics: www.bls.gov
i) Consumer Expenditure Survey: http://www.bls.gov/cex/ and http://www.nber.org/data/ces_cbo.html
ii) National Longitudinal surveys: http://www.bls.gov/nls/
b) Panel study of income Dynamics: http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/
10) Law/Crime
a) Bureau of Justice Statistics: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
b) FBI Uniform Crime Reports: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/ucr
c) National archive of Criminal Justice Data: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/NACJD/
d) Justin Wolfers - Death Penalty Studies: http://bpp.wharton.upenn.edu/jwolfers/DeathPenalty.shtml
e) Empirical legal Studies (links to databases): http://www.elsblog.org/
f) Gun Control
i) John Lott’s data: http://www.johnlott.org/
ii) Carlisle Moody’s data: http://cemood.people.wm.edu/research.html
iii) Stephen Rafael’s data:
11) Sports
a) Rodney Fort: http://www.rodneyfort.com/SportsData/BizFrame.htm
b) John Vrooman: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Econ/faculty/Vrooman/sports.htm
c) cMax:
i) MLB: http://cmaxxsports.com/Misc/MLBResources.html
ii) NBA: http://cmaxxsports.com/Misc/NBAResources.html
iii) NFL: http://cmaxxsports.com/Misc/NFLResources.html
iv) NCAA: http://cmaxxsports.com/Misc/NCAAResources.html
v) Forbes Valuations: http://cmaxxsports.com/Misc/ForbesResources.html
12) Taxation and Income Inequality
a) Tax Policy Center: http://slfdqs.taxpolicycenter.org/
b) World Tax Database: http://www.bus.umich.edu/otpr/otpr/default.asp
c) Top Incomes Database: http://g-mond.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/topincomes/
d) OECD data
i) Cara McDaniel: http://www.caramcdaniel.com/researchpapers
ii) Peter Lindert: http://lindert.econ.ucdavis.edu/index.cfm?employeeid=17¤tNav=2
e) Collecting Taxes: http://www.fiscalreform.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=759&Itemid=134
f) World Income Inequality databases:
i) UNU-WIDER: http://www.wider.unu.edu/research/Database/en_GB/database/
ii) Solt’s Standardized Database: http://www.siuc.edu/~fsolt/swiid/swiid.html
13) Trade
a) IRS Tax Stats: http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/
b) International Trade Commission: http://www.usitc.gov/
c) ITC trade and tariff database: http://dataweb.usitc.gov/
d) International trade Data System: http://www.itds.gov/
e) Foreign Trade: http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/
f) World Trade Organization: http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/statis_e.htm
14) Transportation
a) Department of Transportation: http://www.dot.gov/
b) FAA: http://www.faa.gov/data_research/
c) Bureau of Transportation Statistics: www.bts.gov
d) Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS) (CA 2001 - 2010): http://www.chp.ca.gov/switrs/
e) BTA/Airlines - Database Directory: http://www.transtats.bts.gov/DataIndex.asp
i) Transtats Homepage: http://www.transtats.bts.gov/homepage.asp
ii) Airline Information: http://www.bts.gov/programs/airline_information/
iii) Origin and Destination Survey (10% Sample): http://www.transtats.bts.gov/DatabaseInfo.asp?DB_ID=125&DB_Short_Name=Origin%20and%20Destination%20Survey&DB_Name=Airline%20Origin%20and%20Destination%20Survey%20%28DB1B%29&Link=0
f) BTA/Freight: http://www.bts.gov/programs/freight_transportation/
g) MIT's Airline Data Project: http://web.mit.edu/airlinedata/www/default.html