{"id":453,"date":"2019-10-09T15:12:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T19:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/?p=453"},"modified":"2020-01-27T12:31:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T17:31:47","slug":"soft-skills-data-and-stata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/browse-by-training\/soft-skills-data-and-stata\/","title":{"rendered":"Data, Stata, and Other Resources from the Williams Economics Department"},"content":{"rendered":"

Williams Economics Department Resources<\/a><\/h3>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The department website includes several sets of resources:<\/p>\n

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  1. Guides for Stata,<\/a> from beginning tutorials to cheat sheets to more advanced coding<\/li>\n
  2. Links to blogs recommended by the department<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Recommendations in working with Geographical Information Systems (GIS)<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. A comprehensive source called “Resources for Economists on the Internet”<\/a> sponsored by the American Economic Review<\/li>\n
  5. Resources for searching for research articles on your own<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. A guide to how to think about writing code<\/a> by Matthew Gentzow (NBER) and Jesse M. Schapiro (Harvard).<\/li>\n
  7. Data on developing countries<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Population, health and environmental data<\/a>, some in the US, some worldwide<\/li>\n
  9. Data directories<\/a> and information about what Williams access gives you<\/li>\n
  10. Data on finance and business<\/a>, such as data on the stock market and mutual funds<\/li>\n
  11. Data relevant to economic history<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. Data on education<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. Data on the US:\n
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    1. Some US data sources<\/a> at the national and state level; US census data;<\/a> household-level surveys for the US<\/a><\/li>\n
    2. Tax data<\/a>, mostly for the US but also for some other countries<\/li>\n
    3. Housing data for the US<\/a><\/li>\n
    4. Data on law and justice,<\/a> mostly for the US<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[138,46],"tags":[150,156,145,144,141,151,158,148,147,154,149,142,143,153,157,146,152,140,155],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data","category-browse-by-training","tag-business-data","tag-census-data","tag-code","tag-code-writing","tag-data","tag-data-directories","tag-data-on-law-and-justice","tag-economic-history-data","tag-education-data","tag-environmental-data","tag-finance-data","tag-foundational-skills","tag-gis","tag-health-data","tag-household-level-surveys","tag-housing-data","tag-population-data","tag-stata","tag-tax-data"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}