Social Science Research Council
This page is an attempt by the PAE staff to categorize Internet resources that economics graduate students might find particularly useful or interesting. We welcome feedback on this page, especially suggestions that will help us to expand and/or organize it more effectively. All comments and suggestions can be emailed to the program at pae@ssrc.org .
Major Economics Websites
Resources for Economists on the
Internet
AEA-sponsored general resource and information site for economists. Includes
information and links to data, forecasting tools, departments and universities,
upcoming meetings, job postings and academic advice.
WebEc
WebEc is an effort to categorize free information in economics on the Web. The
links are organized by subject area, i.e., quantitative methods, international
economics, finance, labor economics, law and economics, and many more.
Economics Departments on
the Internet
Listing of U.S. and Canadian Economics departments and links to their websites,
organized alphabetically.
Inomics
Inomics is tailored to the needs of economists, with an economics search engine
and announcements of conferences and job openings. The conference and
employment searches are highly international, and organized by JEL
classification.
Economists with Web
Pages
Searchable listing of economists with websites.
Advice and General Wisdom
Paul Krugman: "How I
Work"
Paul Krugman: "Incidents from my Career"
Hal Varian: "How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time" (Adobe .pdf)
David Romer: Making It Through Graduate School and Finishing Your Dissertation
Kwan Choi: "How to Publish in Top Journals"
Don Davis: "Thesis Research Strategies " (Adobe .pdf)
Funding Resources
Grant Support for Economists
Links to funding databases, foundations, government sources, and all manner of
advice and funding news from the AEA.
The Foundation Center
Provides information about numerous charitable foundations and institutions,
and offers guidance on applying for grants and fellowships. Also includes
downloadable common applications for regional grant makers.
National Science Foundation Division
of Social and Economic Sciences
Arm of the NSF for grants in the Social Sciences. Includes application
materials, information on awards, guidelines for applying, and projects
currently being funded.
Illinois Researcher Information
Service (IRIS)
Funding database from the University of Illinois (access only for participating
institutions; check here to see if your university is a member).
Grad Grants
Academic grant and fellowship information from the University of Indiana.
Community of Science
Funding and employment databases for the social, natural, and behavioral
sciences. The resources are extensive, but fully available only to
institutional subscribers (check with your university library). Individuals may
join free of charge and gain access to funding updates and newsletters, as well
as guides on finding grants and building a CV.
Finaid.org
Information about federal education loans and grants, as well as private
scholarships.
Workshops for Graduate Students
Santa Fe Workshop
on Computational Economics
The Santa Fe Institute Workshop on Computational Economics brings together a
group of advanced graduate students and a small faculty for an intensive two
week study of computational economics. The workshop will consist of lectures by
faculty, special topic seminars by members of the Santa Fe Institute, and
presentations of work in progress by graduate student participants. The primary
goal of the summer workshop is to assist graduate students pursuing research
agendas which include a computational component. A significant portion of the
workshop will be devoted to analyzing and improving research being conducted by
the graduate student participants.
Max
Planck Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality in Psychology and
Economics
From the website: "The summer institute on bounded rationality in psychology
and economics intends to counter the still prevailing opposition between the
psychological and the rational-an opposition that is, in our view, more
constructed than real. Our aim is to put forth a view of decision makers that
is anchored in the psychological possibilities of humans rather than in the
fictional construct of some homo economicus."
RAND Summer Institute on
Aging
The RAND Summer Institute (RSI) on the Demography, Economics, and Epidemiology
of Aging is an annual conference that addresses critical issues facing our
aging population, which serves as a vehicle to provide additional training to
researchers new to the field of aging. Junior faculty, post-doctoral fellows,
pre-doctoral candidates who have successfully defended their dissertation
proposals, and senior researchers who are new to the field of aging are
eligible.
Employment Resources
Job Openings for Economists
Monthly update of academic and non-academic positions in the U.S. and abroad.
Maintained by the AEA.
SSRN Job
Listings
Maintained by the Social Science Research Network, an international social
science organization. Job listing includes academic and non-academic positions
worldwide.
Chronicle of Higher Education Job
Listings
Recent academic and non-academic job openings, categorized by field.
Subscribers get access to most recent updates, and week-old announcements are
free of charge.
The Job Market Page
Mostly economics job openings in Europe. Includes links to other economics and
social science job opening websites.
Survey of the
Labor Market For New Ph.D.s in Economics
Annual report by the University of Arkansas Center for Business and Economic
Research.
Myths and Realities of the Ph.D.
Marketplace
1997 address to the Association of Graduate Schools by Janice F. Madden, Vice
Provost for Graduate Education, University of Pennsylvania. Includes statistics
on Ph.D. attainment and employment.
Other Resources
Exchange Scholar
Program
The Exchange Scholar Program is a consortium of top universities that allows
doctoral students enrolled in a participating graduate school to spend time at
another so as to take advantage of facilities or resources not available at the
home institution. See the website for a list of the participating schools and
programs, or check with administration at your university.
Graduate Student Teaching
Resource Network
Guide for new TAs from the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Teaching and
Learning. Includes advice on what to do on the first day of class, building a
website for class, and designing a syllabus, among other things.
Association for Support of Graduate
Students
ASGS is a service organization of graduate students, graduate-student
organizations, and graduate-degree-granting institutions. ASGS assists students
to complete their theses and obtain their degrees, produce the highest quality
of theses, and improve their lives during the thesis process.
Council of Graduate Schools
Organization dedicated to the improvement and advancement of graduate
education.
Data Sources
Economic-indicators.com
Data on the key indicators of the U.S. economy.
U.S. Census Bureau
2000 census data is now available on the site.
The Inter-university Consortium for
Political and Social Research
ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data
for research and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods to
facilitate effective data use.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Congressional Budget Office
University of
Michigan Survey of Consumers
Globalmetrix
Globalmetrix is a fully integrated, worldwide economic database linking trade,
industrial production, employment, wages and prices into a seamless, internally
consistent, global system of data and forecasts.
Luxembourg Income Study
The LIS is a cooperative research project with a membership that includes 25
countries on four continents. The LIS database is a collection of household
income surveys. These surveys provide demographic, income and expenditure
information on three different levels: household, person and child.
Economic Organizations
American Economic
Association
American Finance Association
United Nations Development
Program
National Bureau of Economic
Research
The Brookings Institution
The Urban Institute
International Monetary Fund
The World Bank
Centre for Economic Policy
Research
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