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- Legal Resources
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Organizations, Associations, and Governmental Agencies
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Brookings Institution
- Brookings Economic Studies Program
- The Brookings Economic Studies program analyzes current emerging economic policy issues facing the United States and the industrialized and developing world. Includes links to Brookings Discussion Papers on International Economics and Domestic Economics.
- Center on Social and Economic Dynamics
- The central thrust of the Center's research agenda is to examine how the dynamics of interaction at the individual level aggregate into recognizable patterns of behavior and institutions at the social level.
- Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Center for Law and Social Policy
- CLASP is a national non-profit organization with expertise in both law and policy affecting the poor that seeks to improve the economic conditions of low-income families with children and secure access for the poor to the civil justice system.
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- The Center is a nonpartisan research organization and policy institute that conducts research and analysis on a range of government policies and programs, with an emphasis on those affecting low- and moderate-income people.
- The Citizens Budget Commission
- CBC is a nonpartisan, nonprofit civic organization devoted to influencing constructive change in the finances and services of New York City and New York State government.
- Economic and Social Research Council (UK)
- The ESRC is the UK's largest independent funding agency for research and postgraduate training into social and economic issues.
- REGARD database
- REGARD is a database service containing in-depth information on social science research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (UK). You can search using simple keywords for details of research projects which have been granted awards by the ESRC, as well as publications and other research activities which are products of such awards.
- Economic Policy Institute
- EPI is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy.
- Family Income Data Series
- Federal Reserve Board
- The Twelve Federal Reserve Districts
- Lists of phone numbers, addresses, and links to each district's web site.
- Fed-In-Print
- A searchable index to Federal Reserve economic research.
- FRED : Federal Reserve Economic Data provided by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
- FRED provides historical U.S. economic and financial data, including daily U.S. interest rates, monetary and business indicators, exchange rates, and regional economic data for Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee.
- The Beige Book : Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District
- National Economic Trends collected and published monthly by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
- A comprehensive snapshot, primarily graphical, of the state of the U.S. economy covering output, inflation, labor markets, interest rates, government budgets, international trade and more. A brief essay in each issue discusses a topic of current interest.
- U.S. Financial Data collected and published on a weekly basis by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
- Charts and tables relating to weekly monetary and reserve aggregates, selected interest rates, commercial bank loans, and more.
- Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
- The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) is a national, university-based center for research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States. It is nonprofit and nonpartisan.
- Jerome Levy Institute of Bard College, NY
- A nonpartisan, independent research organization devoted to public service.
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- Online Data from NBER
- Search the NBER Working Paper Database
- A large number of working papers are available for download. If a working paper is not available in the Urban Institute Library and the NBER database indicates that it is available for download, you can request that the paper be downloaded by submitting a Literature Request Form to the library.
- Twentieth Century Fund - Current Projects on Economic Policy
- Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Association of Social Economics
- The International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics
- Union for Radical Political Economist
Political Economy Research Institute
Periodical Resources (some resources may not be full-text)
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Economic Journal - Royal Economic Society
Free access now available to datasets associated with articles published in "The Economic Journal."
- Economic News Page
- List of recent articles following economic trends in the U.S.; online from the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress.
- Economic Perspectives -- Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
- A bimonthly journal of in-depth articles largely reporting on the Bank's economic research in the financial, business, agricultural, and international sectors.
- Economic Policy Review -- Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- A policy-oriented research journal on macroeconomics, banking, and financial market topics.
- The Independent Review : A Journal of Political Economy
- A quarterly journal published by the Independent Institute.
- Reading Between the Lines
- An Economics Policy Institute feature, updated weekly: selected corrections, clarifications, and amplifications to economics coverage in the New York Times and the Washington Post.
- Review -- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
- An economics journal containing articles about national and international economic developments, particularly their monetary aspects.
- Weekly U.S. Economic Commentary
- A weekly commentary on the U.S. economy; online from Wells Fargo.
- World Economic Outlook : A Survey by the Staff of the International Monetary Fund
- Most recent issue full text in PDF format.
Other Resources
- The Blue Booklet : General Explanation of the Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress
- Prepared by the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation.
- The Dismal Scientist
- Provides daily updates of key U.S. economic variables such as housing starts, employment, and the CPI. Also available are historical statistics, local and industry statistics, forecasts, and analyses of key variables.
- Economic Studies
- Analyzes current emerging economic policy issues faceing the U.S. and the industrialized and developing world; online from Brookings.
- Economics Quick Links
- Provides links to economic journals, academic papers, government departments and more; online from Duke University Department of Economics.
- Economic Time Series Page located at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Economics Site
- EconWPA
- Free distribution of working papers in economics; service provided by the Economics Department of Washington University.
- Link to "Other Resources for Economists"
- NetEc
- NetEc is a volunteer effort to improve the communication of research in Economics via electronic media. It consists of:
- Resources for Economists on the Internet
- Provided by the Dept. of Economics and International Business, University of Southern Mississippi.
Legal Resources
- The Center's areas of expertise encompass child abuse and neglect (including child sexual abuse and exploitation), child welfare and child protective service system enhancement, foster care, family preservation, termination of parental rights, child support, child fatalities, parental substance abuse, child custody and visitation, and parental kidnapping.
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Statistical Resources
- Handbook of International Economic Statistics - 1997 from the Central Intelligence Agency
- The Handbook provides basic worldwide statistics for comparing the economic performance of major countries and regions. In general, the data in the Handbook are for 1970, 1980, and individual years in the period 1990-96.
- Statistical Resources on the Web : Economics
- Site maintained by the University of Michigan Documents Center.
- County and City Databooks, 1994 & 1988
- This resource provides WWW access to the electronic versions of the 1988 and 1994 County and City Data Books. This service provides the opportunity to create custom printouts and/or customized data subsets.
- Regional Economic Information Service (REIS)
- The REIS data base provides local area economic data for states, counties, and metropolitan areas for 1969-1995. Statistics in the data base include: personal income and earning variables, full and part employment variables, transfer payments variables, and farm income and expenses variables.
- State Personal Income, 1969-1995
- White House Economic Statistics Briefing Room
- Links to Federal economic indicators.