Resources
Prof. Godlonton recommends: Pan-African Scientific Research Council Newsletter
Pan-African Scientific Research Council Newsletter Sign up form The Pan-African Scientific Research Council Newsletter which gets released monthly and sent over email to those signed up contains a lot of great resources for those interested in development economics. Here is a sample of a few resources mentioned in its July issue: Conference organized by the…
Read MoreProf. Godlonton recommends: Robert S. McNamara Fellowships Program
Robert S. McNamara Fellowships Program A Fellowship at the World Bank This is a great funded/paid position for researchers from developing countries to participate in research in the World Bank’s Development Economics Vice Presidency (DEC). For more information on this opportunity and to apply please visit this link. Applications are currently being accepted in a…
Read MoreProf. Bakija recommends two resources: Goats and Soda and Rough Translation
Interested in how the developing world is doing? Here are two very good resources from the National Public Radio (NPR) covering various current developments in the developing world. Goats and Soda.
Read MoreAnnouncement: IDEAS Calendar of Virtual Webinars in Development
IDEAS is hosting a calendar of all the webinars they can find related to development. Check back often if you have some time and want to learn something new!
Read MoreWorkLife with Adam Grant
WorkLife is a podcast from the TED group about “making work not suck.”
Read MoreNada es gratis
Nada es gratis is a Spanish-language blog with some of the most prominent Spanish-speaking economists as regular contributors. They focus a little more on the European situation, but there’s a lot of good general content for the hispanohablantes.
Read MoreVoxTalks
VoxTalks discusses the very latest in research, and has been expanding their offerings to include regular updates on evolving research pertaining to the coronavirus crisis and its likely economic impacts.
Read MoreProf. Godlonton Recommends: Free Books on Data and Machine Learning!
Who doesn’t like free books? The publisher Springer has released a list of 408 books that it’s making free, gratis, gratuitos, available in pdf or epub format. Of those, there are 65 on data and machine learning. Check ’em out if you’re looking to beef up your data skills.
Read MoreBook: Supercrunchers
An excerpt from this book has been assigned as required reading for “Public Economics,” a core CDE course taught in the fall.
Read MoreData, Stata, and Other Resources from the Williams Economics Department
The Williams Economics Department website resource listing is pretty comprehensive. We’ll be parsing through the recommendations a little more gradually and organizing them by content area, but here’s a list so you have an idea of what’s there.
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