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Peter G. Klein | Resources for graduate students

[Last updated: 4 March 2011]

Statistical packages and resources

• Notes on econometrics software available at Mizzou
• "Econometrics: A Bird's Eye View" by John F. Geweke, Joel L. Horowitz, and Hashem Pesaran, IZA Discussion Paper No. 2458, November 2006.

Data sources

• WRDS (Compustat, CRSP, and more
• NBER (some files available only from on-campus workstations)
• CORI's contracts database
• The World Bank's entrepreneurship database
• The Kauffman Foundation's Index of Entrepreneurial Activity (US states)
• US patent data from Hall, Jaffe, and Trajtenberg
• Cross-country data on the legal and regulatory environment from the World Bank and the Fraser Institute
• Ohio State's Financial Data Finder
• Historical data from EH.Net
• Commercial bank and bank holding company data from the Chicago Fed
• Bill Schwert's stock-returns series from 1802 (monthly) and 1885 (daily)
• Economic Report of the President

Tex and LaTeX

• Introduction to LaTeX
• TeX FAQ
• TeX Users Group
• MiKTeX (free TeX for Windows)
• Scientific Word, a commercial GUI for LaTeX

Bibliographies

• Harvey James's annotated bibliography on Transaction Cost Economics
• My bibliography on Austrian economics and the theory of the firm

Writing, speaking, and listening

• Ezra Zuckerman, "Tips to Article Writers"
• Eric Rasmusen, "Aphorisms on Writing, Speaking, and Listening," Working Paper, Indiana University, September 29, 2003.
• Words and phrases to avoid (1, 2)
• The Economist magazine's style guide (many useful writing tips)
• William Thomson, "The Young Person's Guide to Writing [Mathematical] Economic Theory," Journal of Economic Literature 37 (1999):157-83.
• Simon Peyton Jones, "How to Write a Good Research Paper and Give a Good Research Talk"
• Dick Langlois's Notes on Writing

Teaching

• Teaching resources from RFE
• UNC Chapel Hill's econ faculty General Classroom Techniques

Miscellaneous

• The EconPhD meta-site
• A set of resources compiled by Greg Mankiw
• Prospective PhD students should consider Mike Moffatt's advice (don't miss the links in the right-hand column). And here are Tyler Cowen and Bryan Caplan with their advice.
• How to publish in top journals
• Daniel S. Hamermesh, "The Young Economist's Guide to Professional Etiquette," Journal of Economic Perspectives 6 (1992): 169-79.
• David Colander and Arjo Klamer, "The Making of an Economist," Journal of Economic Perspectives 1 (1987): 95-111.
• David Colander, The Making of an Economist Redux," Journal of Economic Perspectives 19, no. 1 (2005): 175-98.
• William Thompson, A Guide for the Young Economist (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001).
• "You and Your Research," a 1986 lecture from former Bell Labs researcher Richard Hamming on the abilities, traits, work habits, attitudes, and philosophies of the great scientists.
• George W. Ladd, "Artistic Research Tools for Scientific Minds," American Journal of Agricultural Economics 1, no. 1 (February 1979): 1-11.