Resources

This page contains links to materials written by others that I particularly enjoy or find useful.

Periodicals

• The Economist
• New York Times
• Wall Street Journal

Social Media

• #EconTwitter — Hashtag on Twitter for the Economics Community
• @econ_ra — Economics RA Listings
• A Beginner’s Guide to #EconTwitter — Twitter thread by Matt Clancy

Radio/Podcasts

• The Daily — Hosted by Michael Barbaro of the New York Times
• EconTalk — Hosted by Russ Roberts of Stanford’s Hoover Institution
• Freakonomics — Hosted by Stephen Dubner
• NPR Hidden Brain — Hosted by Shankar Vedantam
• NPR Planet Money — “Imagine you could call up a friend and say, ‘Meet me at the bar and tell me what’s going on with the economy.’”
• Revisionist History — Hosted by Malcolm Gladwell

Blogs

• AEIdeas — Public policy blog from the American Enterprise Institute
• Free Exchange Blog — The Economist correspondents on the world economy
• Greg Mankiw’s Blog — Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University
• Jim Garven’s Blog — Frank S. Groner Memorial Chair of Finance at Baylor University
• Marginal Revolution — Blog of Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok at George Mason University
• Real Time Economics — The WSJ blog on Economics

Texts

• Introduction to Statistical Learning
• Elements of Statistical Learning
• An Introduction to Data Cleaning with R
• R Graphics Cookbook
• Causal Inference: The Mixtape
• Introduction to Econometrics with R
• R for Data Science

Language Cheat Sheets

• R-Studio Cheat Sheets
• Stata Cheat Sheets

Other Useful Websites

Open-Source Economics

• My GitHub Repositories — All open-source repositories maintained or contributed to
• Open Source Policy Center (OSPC) — OSPC at AEI incubates open source models; contributions in the OSPC Portfolio
• Policy Simulation Library (PSL) — Collection of models and software for public-policy decisionmaking

Tax Policy Resources

• Tax Policy Center
• Tax Foundation
• Tax Notes

Miscellanea

• JOE Listings — Job Openings for Economists
• Fed Econ Jobs — RA Opportunities to Work with Fed Economists