Resources

Economics at George Mason University

• Center for the Study of Public Choice
• Fall 2023 Seminar Series

Economic History

• EHA Website
• EH.net
• Explorations in Economic History
• Journal of Economic History
• Economic History Podcast
• GrowthChat Podcast

Historical Political Economy

• Broadstreet Blog

Econometrics and Causal Inference

These resources are helpful for both learning basic metrics & causal inference as well as tracking packages to implement these techniques in different data analysis software, primarily R, Stata, and Python

• “The Effect” by Nick Huntington-Klein
• “Causal Inference: The Mixtape” by Scott Cunningham
• The Library of Statistical Techniques (LOST)
• Difference-in-Difference (DiD) Repository from Asjad Naqvi

Getting Started with R

• Download R
• Download RStudio from posit
• Starter links from posit
• Package Cheatsheets from posit

Data Science in R

• R for Data Science by Wickham & Grolemund

Web Crawling & Scraping in R

• Rvest R Package (Part of Tidyverse)
• Web Crawling & Scraping Tutorial by Alex Cardazzi

GIS

• “Geocomputation with R” by Lovelace, Nowosad, & Muenchow
• Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (US)
  • Shapefiles for historical county (1629-2000) and state/territory (1783-2000) boundaries. Tracks all boundary changes over time.
• IPUMS NHGIS (US)
  • Shapefiles for historical boundaries in census years from 1790-Present. Does not track all changes, only shows boundaries as they existed in census years.
• Eurostat (From the EU)
  • Shapefiles for modern Europe

Text as Data

• “Text Mining with R” by Silge & Robinson

Fun and Useful

• ChatGPT (Impressively good at coding!)
• Elicit: The AI Research Assistant

Fun and (Academically) Useless

• Phish.net
  • Full of fan-sourced song, venue, and performance statistics for the jam band Phish