Jason Blevins

1. Statistical Methods

• Monte Carlo Short Course: A collection of slides on monte carlo statistical methods by George Casella with example programs in R.
• A Brief Guide to R for Beginners in Econometrics
• Using Perl for Statistics: Data Processing and Statistical Computing

2. Numerical Methods

• Numerical Recipes - Numerical methods implemented in C, C++, Fortran 77 and Fortran 90.
• Blitz++ - A fast, templated C++ array library.
• Boost C++ Libraries - A collection of C++ libraries, many which are useful for numerical work.
• Automatic Differentiation: A site describing various automatic differentiation libraries for C++, Fortran and other languages.
• Mersenne Twister - A very fast random number generator of period 2¹⁹⁹³⁷ - 1.
• Simulated Annealing - Fortran implementation by Bill Goffe

3. Programming Languages

• Polyhedron Software: Fortran Compiler Comparisons
• The Computer Language Shootout Benchmarks

4. Airline Economics

• Transtats - Transportation data and statistics from the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

5. Useful Software

• GNU Emacs - The only editor you’ll ever need.
• Intel Fortran compiler for Linux - The Linux version is free for non-commercial use. You are ineligible for the non-commercial version if you receive any compensation at all related to your work, be it your salary as a professor or your earnings as a research assistant. Academic versions can be obtained from Programmer’s Paradise.
• LaTeX - A free professional-quality typesetting system.
• Perl - An excellent, widely-used scripting language.
• Ruby - Another very well designed object-oriented scripting language.
• Graphviz - Open source graph (network) visualization project from AT&T.
• Gambit - Game theory analysis software.
• PDF Creator - Print to PDF files.

6. Bibliography

• Cite U Like - A social network based academic bibliography site.
• Google Scholar - A search engine for research papers.
• NBER Working Papers - The working paper archive of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
• IDEAS - A database of research papers in economics.

7. Lecture Notes

• Notes on Microeconomic Theory - An excellent set of notes by Nolan H. Miller (Harvard). They follow Mas-Colell, Whinston and Green.

8. Writing and Culture

• Writing Tips for Ph.D. Students - A short essay by John Cochrane on presenting results and writing papers.
• From Manuscript to Publication: A Brief Guide for Economists - John Creedy, Australian Economic Review, vol. 39, no.1 (2006), pp. 103-113.
• The Young Economist’s Guide to Professional Etiquette - Daniel S. Hamermesh, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Winter, 1992), pp. 169–179.

9. Ph.D. Student Sites

• EconPhD.net - Resources for graduate studies in economics.
• Becomming an Economist - Information for prospective Economics Ph.D. students.

10. Urban Economics

• Urban Economic Geography - A very comprehensive bibliography and list of links by Günter Krumme.
• Urban Economics (Spring 2004) - An undergraduate course by Thomas J. Holmes (Minnesota).
• Journal of Urban Economics
• Econ 461: Urban Economics - A course at Rice University.