Gina C. Pieters, Ph.D. Economist
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Resources for Undergraduate Students 
Coding
  • A language-agnostic guide to programming for economists by "LJ" Ristovska
  • Code and Data for the Social Sciences: A Practioner's Guide by Dr. Gentzkow and Dr. Shapiro
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Writing
  • TexStudio is the main LaTex editor I use.
  • Writing advice, aggregates multiple classics about writing/presenting in Econ.​
  • Core writing classic Tweet 
Economics Resources for Undergraduates (General)
  • https://www.aeaweb.org/resources/students

How to get into Academia (PhD/MA)
  • Dr. Doleac's page of helpful Twitter Threads for Aspiring Academic Economics
  • This twitter thread contains my advice on applications for PhD. focused Economics MA programs.
EconBrew List 
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Conferences for Economists who Teach

CTREE (AEA's Teaching conference)
St. Louis Fed Professors Conference
Liberal Arts Macro Workshop (Research+Teaching, focus on international, finance)
Liberal Arts Development Workshop (Research+Teaching, focus on Econ Development/Growth)
National Economic Education Delegation (NEED)

OurOnline Data Sources for Student Projects

United States Focus (*Also has international data)
Bureau of Labor Statistics* 
Bureau of Economic Analysis* 
U.S. Census Bureau 
Federal Reserve System* 
Federal Reserve Bank: FRED* 
Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) 
Health and Retirement Study (HRS) 
USA TradeStats Express 
USA Trade Online (need to create an account)
DataUSA
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International & Trade
OECD 
IMF-International Financial Statistics 
Global Financial Data (some series are free)
Penn World Tables 
UN Comtrade database
CID @ UCD 
The Observatory of Economic Complexity
World Bank Data Sets
CEPII (Gravity)
DataAfrica
TRAINS database (Tariffs and product flows at HS6)
Trade Agreements and Currency Unions
Our World In Data