ECON 4901J

Instructor:

Leung, Tin Cheuk

Meeting Time:

Tuesday 8:30-10:15am (ELB 204)

Announcement:

1. Workshops schedule

2. Course outline

3. Below you can find some links to data sources. Of course, you are encouraged to explore other data sources for your paper.

4. Please email me a 2-page proposal by Sept 24. In the proposal, you should include 3 potential research ideas. For each research idea, you should

   • state the research question and discuss why you think it is important/interesting

   • briefly discuss how you are going to approach the question, e.g. how will you collect data or how will you set up the model

5. Everyone will present his/her proposal on Sept 27 for 5 minutes

Useful Links:

• Macro Data

  • World Bank

  • IMF

  • Penn World Table

  • Demographic and Health Survey

• Economic History

  • Prof. Nathan Nunn's page (mainly on African slave trade)

  • Prof. David Jack's page (mainly on trade)

• Hong Kong and China

  • Hong Kong Census

  • China Census

  • Centaline Data (Hong Kong Real Estate Data)

• Other Data Sources

  • Asian Barometer

  • Afrobarometer

  • US Movie Box Office