"Let your interests and passions guide you in choosing the questions you ask, but keep those passions out of the answers you form."
--Richard Musgrave

Videos by Joshua Angrist on "Mastering Econometrics"

Sources for economic data

• Links compiled by Bill Goffe for American Economic Association.
• Links compiled by Bill Boal (mostly U.S. Federal Government sources).
• Google data set search engine (beta version).
• Harvard Dataverse (repository).
• World Bank Data Catalog (repository).

Stata resources

• Official site (available versions and pricing).
• UCLA site (FAQs and examples).
• Links suggested by Prof. Colin Cameron, University of California, Davis, author with Pravin Trevedi of Microeconometrics, a graduate textbook, and Microeconometrics Using Stata.

SAS resources

• Basics of SAS (handout)

Whitney Hanson, How Does Immigration Relate to Different Measures of Crime in the United States? DUSSJ, Spring 2017.

Ryan McKeever, Measuring Human Development in the United States, DUSSJ, Spring 2017.

Noah Bamonte-Grebis, Cash Transfers and Individual Labor, DUSSJ, Spring 2020.

Abigail Cornett, The Winds of Change: How Wind Energy Impacts Local Economies in Iowa, DMR, Spring 2020.

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On-campus outlets for student economics research

• Drake Undergraduate Social Science Journal.
• Drake Management Review.
• Drake University Conference on Undergraduate Research in the Sciences (DUCURS).
• Nelson Institute Undergraduate Conference on Global Affairs.

Off-campus outlets for student economics research

• Jepson Undergraduate Research Conference on International Economics at University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls. The conference usually takes place in April. Paper submissions are usually due at the end of February. For more information, contact Professor Shahina Amin.
• Midwest Economics Association Annual Conference. The conference usually takes place in March, and includes several sessions for undergraduate research. Undergraduate paper submissions are usually due December 1--see the website for details.
• American Economic Association page (list of journals and conferences that welcome undergraduate research).