Open Access Data Sources

• Household & Socioeconomic Data 

  • The World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study Data (LSMS)

  • IPUMS DHS data

  • Young Lives Household and child survey (University of Oxford)

• Environmental & Spatial Data 

  • National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) spatial database

  • Derived Map of Global Electricity Transmission And Distribution Lines

  • High-Resolution Electricity Access Indicators Dataset

  • GRIP (Global Roads Inventory Dataset) -2018: Road Density 

  • Global Roads Open Access Data Set (gROADS), v1 (1980 – 2010)

• Experimental & Policy Research Datasets 

  • Experimental Research (PIERI) Datasets

  • International Survey on Coronavirus

  • Country-by-country data on confirmed COVID-19 cases

Replicable Papers (with codes) 

• • OPENICPSR/American Economic Association 

  • Harvard Dataverse 

  • Review of Economics and Statistics Dataverse- replication data and code

Statistical Software & Tutorials 

• STATA

  • Stata Learning Modules (UCLA)

  • Video tutorials (StataCorp LLC)

• R, SQL, Python, & GitHub

  • Development Microeconomics with Jupyter Notebooks

  • Quantitative Economics with Python

  • R Learning Modules (UCLA)

  • R, SQL, Python and GitHub - The Carpentries 

  • Python Tutorial

  • Stata and R in a jupyter notebook

  • R & Python for Data Science 

  • netCDF in R

Specialized Econometric Methods 

• • Regression Discontinuity Designs Software Packages

Other Resources

• Writing, Seminars, and Discussant Tips 

  • Best Practices for Writing Research Papers 

  • Writing, Seminar, being discussant (Tips)