Worksheets and Projects in Applied Economics
Eileen Tipoe, University of Oxford, and Ralf Becker, University of Manchester
Free online workbook, designed to be used alongside the CORE textbooks or as part of other courses. A succession of exercises are covered in R, Excel and Google Sheets. Screen-shots walk the reader through the steps of using each interface. The twelve chapters touch on topics including climate change, inequality, wellbeing and unemployment.
Published or updated: 2024
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Raj Chetty and Greg Bruich, Harvard University
Slides, video lectures and syllabus from the Harvard introductory course "Using Big Data Solve Economic and Social Problems" which gets students using statistical science to examine topics such as equality of opportunity, education, health, the environment, and criminal justice. There are also handouts and files from four empirical projects that constitute the course.
Published or updated: 2019
Licence: All Rights Reserved