Journals (on line)
- American Federation of Teachers - National teachers union.
- Berkeley: National Center for Research in Vocational Education
- Blum Center for Parental Freedom in Education - Distributes information regarding school choice efforts nationwide.
- Center for Education Reform - Information broker for national reform.
- College Board
- Columbia: Institute on Education and the Economy
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- Department of Education
- Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
- Department of Education, Office of Non-Public Education
- Education Commission of the States
- Education Week - American education online newspaper.
- Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse
- Facts About Choice - Tracks school choice developments in each state and provides analysis of federal education initiatives.
- Harvard: Program on Educational Policy and Governance
- Heartland Institute's School Reform News - Local and national headlines with analysis in monthly online newsletter.
- Institute for Justice - Litigates educational choice cases.
- Milton and Rose Friedman Foundation - Promotes education reform through competition and choice.
- Milwaukee School Choice Program - First large-scale voucher program.
- National Education Association - National teachers union.
- PBS Newshour on Choice - Also, check here and here for other Newshour stories.
- Policy.com - Education
- School District Data
- School Profiles
- State Departments of Education
- Third International Math and Science Study
- Thomas B. Fordham Foundation - In-depth analysis on education reform.
- U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Education and the Workforce
- Williams: Project on the Economics of Higher Education
JStor Articles
from the major journals pre 1995 can be downloaded for free.
For the most complete list of journals in Economics, see WebEC's list of journals
- Econometric Theory
- Econometrica
- Economics Letters
- Journal of the American Statistical Association
- Journal of Applied Econometrics, on JSTOR
- Journal of Econometrics, now part of ECONBase Available for download for registered users are articles from selected eonomics journals including Economics Letters, European Economic Review, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics and Journal of Public Economics.
- Review of Economics and Statistics
Statistical Software
- EViews
- GAUSS
- The GAUSS benchmark page.
- GAUSS code at American university
- LIMDEP
- Mathematica
- MATLAB
- MATCOM, a commercial MATLAB to C++ translator.
- SAS
- S-PLUS
- Stata
- Adobe Acrobat, for viewing .pdf files
- Ghostcript and GSView, for viewing postscript files
- Shareware.com
- Winzip
Datasets and Organizations that provide data services:
- ICPSR at the University of Michigan. ICPSR stands for Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. There is also a Data Archive and this is usually my first stop.
- The Bureau of Economics Analysis
- The Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Business Cycle Indicators from Media Logic. Very nicely done charts of BEA historical data, produced with their proprietary Windows software. Data itself is conveniently organized and available to download.
- Data from the U.S. Census Bureau
- Data on the net at UCSD. A searchable database of Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data.
- EconData at the University of Maryland. List of datafiles available for downloading. (Data is from BEA, includes some State & Local and International data as well.) Requires using their DOS-based program to read the data.
- EZdata, a huge collection of datasets for financial research at the University of Illinois
- Financial Data Finder, at Ohio State University
- Freeedgar provides real time access to corporate data filed with the SEC
- Historical Commodity Prices (as well as other financial data).
- International Trade Data, maintained by Jon Haveman
- J.P. Morgan. Includes data on commodities, currencies, government bond indices, mortgages, and emerging markets. (Most series are fairly recent only.)
- Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Archive
- Data from papers in the Journal of Applied Econometrics
- NBER Macro History Database. See also their list of Business Cycle Dates.
- The Penn World Tables (CHASS at University of Toronto) (Also available at the NBER.)
- PSID
- The UN Food and Agriculture Organization
- U.S. import and export history at Oregon State University
- Statistical Resources on the Web for Economics.
- World Economic Window. Lots and lots of graphs.
- Bill Goffe's Resources for Economists on the Internet. This is probably the most comprehensive list, and a good place to start.
- Media Logic's Economics, Markets, Investments Index. A set of searchable indices for related information. ( Search for economic topics or indicators.)
- Economics Research Network, a part of the Social Sciences Research Network.
- Hal Varian has a list of "Interesting Servers" that appeal broadly to Economists.
- WebEc
- The Social Science Information Gateway
- World Wide Web Resources in Economics (WebEc)
- Inomics.
- Job Openings for Economists
- The American Economic Association
- The Handbooks in Economics from Elsevier
- EconLit
- Social Sciences Citation Index
- Economics Departments and institutions listing at EDIRC.
- U.S. Economics Departments and institutions listing by Ed Price.
- List of Non-U.S. Economics Departments on the Internet
- U.S. and Canadian Economics Departments (another list),/li>
- Non-US Economics Departments listed by David Giles.
- American Economics Association Directory. ( Search the directory; Gopher search.)
- Another Directory of Economists.
- Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World
- Home Page Papers in Economics (HoPEc).
- NBER Working Papers.
- Economics Working Paper Archive (EconWPA)
- Social Science Research Network
- Electronic working papers in Economics (WoPEc)
- IDEAS - working paper overview. It stands for Internet Documents in Economics Access Service and is a comprehensive database of working paper web sites.
- Printed Papers in Economics (Bibec)