Online Resources for Economics
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Research and Data(to the top)
- The NetEc Group - Collection of services aimed at academic and professional economists including the BibEc and WoPEc collections of working papers, the WebEc directory of economic resources on the Internet, and more.
- Resources for the Economist on the Internet - Hypertext version of Bill Goffe's guide that lists the many resources on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists, and those interested in economics.
- BLS Home Page - US Bureau of Labor Statistics website which contains data sets and information about a variety of economic variables.
- Federal Reserve Economic Data - Contains valuable current and historical data on various aspects of the US economy.
- US Census Bureau - Contains up-to-date economic, social, and demographic data and information from the US census.
- Data and Story Library - Online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods with real-world examples.
- Williams College Library - Contains the College's extensive collection of electronic journals- notably JSTOR and EconLit, which provide electronic access to leading journals in economics and several other academic disciplines.
- Economics Working Papers Archive - Extensive archive of economics working papers online.
- Economists with Web Pages - List of home pages of economists and some economics departments.
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Graduate Study(to the top)
- Economics Ph.D. Programs - An extensive list of economics departments with Ph.D. programs in American and Canadian universities.
- Economics Grad School - A guide to grad school in economics with addmission stats, rankings, etc.
- Economists with Web Pages - List of home pages of economists and some economics departments.
- MBA Explorer - The Graduate Management Admission Council maintains this page of information about MBA programs including an extensive list of business schools on the web.
- Law Schools and Libraries - The Virtual World Wide Web Library's list of law schools and libraries on the web.
- Stanford Professor Susan Athey has extremely useful tips here.
- This table of recent outcomes (not a random sample) gives a rough idea of how competitive the graduate school process is.
- The NSF and Javits offer generous outside fellowships (you must be a US resident to apply).
- Mark Foley at Davidson College hosts a page with these and other useful links here.
- Recent Williams graduates who are currently in Economics PhD programs and have graciously agreed to dispense advice are:
Saumitra Jha, Stanford
Lock Reynolds, Michigan
Dan Rosenblum, Yale
- Send questions or comments about graduate study to Professor Ashok Rai, Graduate School Adviser.
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