ECON 463: Efficiency and Productivity Analysis

Finding Newspaper Articles

Laurie.Bridges@oregonstate.edu (Laurie Bridges) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:37:18 -0700

LexisNexis Academic Comprehensive index to newspaper and magazine articles, radio and TV news program transcripts, legal material and other reference sources. Primarily focused on news, business and legal topics.
The Wall Street Journal Full-text of the Wall Street Journal from 1986.

Finding Books in the Library Catalog

Laurie.Bridges@oregonstate.edu (Laurie Bridges) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:37:18 -0700

OSU Catalog
The OSU catalog lists all the books held in the Valley Library or storage. For visual instructions click here .

Summit
The Summit catalog lists books at other regional libraries that can be retrieved for you and delivered within 3-5 business days.

WorldCat
WorldCat lists books that are available at other libraries in the United States, and sometimes in other countries. If you find a book you want, fill out an interlibrary loan request and the book will delivered to the library (and you'll be sent an email alerting you to its arrival). This service usually takes 2-3 weeks.

Professor

Laurie.Bridges@oregonstate.edu (Laurie Bridges) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:38:20 -0700

Shawna Grosskopf

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Laurie.Bridges@oregonstate.edu (Laurie Bridges) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:56:49 -0700

The Journal of Productivity Analysis is an official journal of the Productivity Analysis Research Network. It publishes theoretical and applied research addressing the measurement, analysis, and improvement of productivity. The journal’s empirical research papers apply theory and techniques to the measurement of productivity and set forth implications for managerial strategies and public policy to enhance productivity.

Library Econ Databases

Laurie.Bridges@oregonstate.edu (Laurie Bridges) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:37:54 -0700

Web of Science (Citation Searching)

Laurie.Bridges@oregonstate.edu (Laurie Bridges) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:38:58 -0700

Library Stats Databases

Laurie.Bridges@oregonstate.edu (Laurie Bridges) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:42:55 -0700

Web Resources

Laurie.Bridges@oregonstate.edu (Laurie Bridges) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:51:55 -0700

Penn World Table

The Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 188 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2004.

EconData
Provides over 1,000 links to socioeconomic data sources, arranged by subject and provider, pointers to the Web’s premier data collections, and their own list of the ten best sites for finding regional economic data.

Economagic
More than 100,000 economic time series data files, with charts and excel files for each. The majority of the data is USA data. The core data sets involve US macroeconomic data (that is, for the whole US), but the bulk of the data is employment data by local area – state, county, MSA, and many cities and towns.

Economic Data-Fred II
Database of over 1000 US economic time series. Download data in Microsoft Excel and text formats and view charts of data.

Economic Policy Institute (EPI)
EPI’s Datazone provides access to about 50 time series dealing with labor market earnings and income data organized in four areas: Wage and compensation tends, Family Earnings and Income Trends, Prices, and Low Wage Labor Market Indicators.

FDIC Regional Economic Conditions
Provides economic information at the state, MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area), and county levels. Updated 8 times a year.

Free Lunch
Access to over 900,000 economic and financial data series.

ICPSR
The Inter-University consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) located at the University of Michigan is the world’s largest data archive. ICPSR acquires, processes and distributes social science data collected by government agencies and other researchers. The data holding cover a broad range of disciplines, including political science, sociology, demography, economics, history, education, gerontology, criminal justice, public health, foreign policy, and law. As OSU is a member of ICPSR, Oregon State University students, faculty and staff have access to these data at no charge.

Population Reference Bureau Datafinder
This database contains data on 95 demographic variables for more than 220 countries, 28 world regions and sub-regions, the world as a whole, the United States as a whole, and the U.S. states. (Not all countries have data on all variables).

National Burea of Economic Research (NBER)
NBER working papers and datasets

The Geospatial and Statistical Data Center
The Geostat Center houses University of Virginia’s collection of electronic statistical and social science data. All the resources are classified and those items are available only to the UVA community are noted as such.

State of the Cities Data Systems
Access to the original electronic data sets generated by HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research sponsored data collection efforts, including the American Housing Survey, HUDS median family income limits, as well as microdata from research initiatives on topics such as housing discrimination, the HUD-insured multifamily housing stock, and the public housing population.

USDA Economics and Statistics System
Contains nearly 300 reports and datasets from the economics agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. These materials cover U.S. and international agriculture and related topics. Most reports are text files that contain time-sensitive information. Most data sets are in spreadsheet format and include time-series data that are updated yearly.