Resources

Things I keep coming back to, and the datasets I actually use.

Course books

Data Science for Economists — a reading companion for ECON 368, Bates College. Python, data wrangling and applied prediction for economists.
Urban Economics Lab — interactive notes for ECON 348, Bates College. Interactive notes for ECON 348, Bates College.
Economics Statistics — course notes for ECO 250, Bates College.

Economics conferences in the US — Anne M. Burton and Barton Willage maintain a list of the major regional and international economics conferences across fields.
How to form a research idea — a resource by Alex Eble.
The Hidden Curriculum Podcast — Sebastian Tello-Trillo and Alex Hollingsworth, with invited guests, on the things nobody tells graduate students. [Spotify]

U.S. Census, American Community Survey (ACS) & PUMS — cross-sectional, 1-year and 5-year. R: tidycensus · Python: tidycensus
Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) — includes Job-to-Job Flows (J2J), LODES, Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO), Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) and Veteran Employment Outcomes (VEO). R: lehdr · Python: lehd
Current Population Survey (CPS), BLS — monthly labor force statistics. R: cpsR, blsAPI, qcewAPI · Python: PyCPS
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), BLS — panel data across cohorts.
Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) — representative sample of over 1,800 individuals in 5,000 families.
Health and Retirement Study (HRS) — longitudinal panel of roughly 20,000 people.
Home Ownership Affordability Monitor — monthly, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
Commuting zones and labor-sheds — economic areas since the 1960s, maintained by Christopher S. Fowler.
Sub-state minimum wages — Economic Policy Institute and UC Berkeley. R: epidata
Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) — Federal Reserve data on household wealth since 1989.
Government finance, Reason Foundation — school district, municipality, county and state level.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation — living situations and experiences of children and families.

Kishan Narayan maintains a directory of Indian datasets.
xKDR maintains datasets including night lights and the Indian justice system.