Student Resources

Below are some links for students or interested parties looking for data or help with empirical estimations. If any of these links are moved or broken please contact me, and I will update as soon as possible. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but it provides a decent starting point.

Data Sources

• Federal Reserve Economic Database (FRED)
• Federal Reserve
• Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
• US Census
• Commerce Department
• Congressional Budget Office
• National Longitudinal Surveys
• World Bank
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• European Central Bank
• ​Penn World Tables
• Gapminder

Open Source (Free) Software Packages

• R & RStudio
• Octave (MATLAB Simulator)
• GRETL
• ADaMSoft
• SAS University Edition
• Python
• GAUSS Student Edition
• Scilab

Estimation Help

• Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE)
• R-Bloggers
• Stack Overflow
• Mathesaurus
• Octave examples

Typesetting

• LaTeX
• LyX