Resources which I find helpful (In progress)

Economic Conference in US

Anne M. Burton and Barton Willage have compiled an amazing list of all the major regional and international economics conferences across different interest areas. - Link

How to form research Idea?

This amazing resource by Alex Eble -  Link  

PhD Resource (Podcast)

The Hidden Curriculum Podcast -  [Spotify]  [Apple Podcast]

It’s a fantastic resource by Sebastian Tello Trillo and Alex Hollingsworth along with many invited guests that aims to bridge the knowledge gap for graduate students and young professionals. 

Useful public DATASET for Urban, Labor and Health

The United States of America :-

• U.S. Census, American Community Survey (ACS) & PUMS cross sectional data (1-year and 5-years) - [R-package: tidycensus] [python: tidycensus]

• Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) - [R-package: lehdr] [python: lehd] :- This includes Job-to-Job Flows (J2J), LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES), Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO), Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI), Veteran Employment Outcomes (VEO).

• BLS-Current Population Survey (CPS) [R-package: cpsR] [python: PyCPS] - This is monthly labor force statistics. Another useful R-package for BLS data download is blsAPI or qcewAPI, to download the Quarterly census of employment and wages (QCEW), Office of Compensation and Working Conditions (OCWC).

• BLS-National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) - Panel dataset of different cohorts. 

• Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) -  Representative sample of over 1,800 individuals living in 5,000 families in the U.S.

• Health and Retirement Study (HRC) - Longitudinal panel representative sample of around 20,000 people in the U.S.

• Monthly Home Ownership Affordability Monitor by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

• Labor-sheds - Commuting Zones - Economic Areas since 1960's by Prof. Christopher S. Fowler

• Minimum wage - Substate-level [EPI] [UC- Berkeley]

• EPI - American Labor Force data [R-package: epidata]

• Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) - This is Federal Reserve data on household wealth since 1989. [R-resource]

• Government Finance by Reason Foundation - Comprehensive financial data for the Government at School District, Municipality, County and State-level.

• The Annie E. Casey Foundation - Data on living situations and experiences of children and families

India :-

• Kishan Narayan maintains amazing directory of dataset on India.

• xKDR also maintains directory of datasets like NightLight, Indian Justice system.