Yifan Wang

BRAC's Ultra-poor Graduation RCT in Bangaldesh

BLUE is a new partnership between BRAC and researchers at the LSE, dedicated to creating innovative solutions to climate change and poverty through research and policy. We have come together through the realisation that people living in poverty face the direst consequences of climate change and are the most vulnerable to its effect. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of their background, has the opportunity to thrive in a changing world.

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Useful Resources

General

• Advice for PhD Students — J. Dingel
• Trade PhD Reading List — S. Reddings, Princeton
• History of Economic Thought

International Trade

• Class Notes — Arkolakis
• Economics 552 Course Page — Princeton
• UEA Lectures 2020 — Urban Economics Association

Environment & Spatial Data

• Global Flood Database
• Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS)
• FAO Vegetation & Drought Data
• Google Environment Insight Explorer
• Google AI for Social Good — flood, building, wildfire & more:
  • Riverine Flood Forecasting
  • Open Buildings
  • Wildfires
  • Extreme Heat

Structural Estimation

• Structural Economics for Beginners — Andrew C. Johnston, UC
• MSM Book Chapter — Harvard
• Quantitative Urban Models
• Structural Estimation Course — GitHub (MACS 40200)
• Stephen Redding's Web Page — Princeton
• Overview of Structural Estimation — UT Austin
• MSM Estimation Notebook — GitHub
• Fedor Iskhakov
• DSE Conference
• Production Function, GMM, MLE — M. Gmeiner
• Heterogeneous Agent Models — Ben Moll (slides & codes)

Difference-in-Differences (DiD)

• Playing with Stata
• DDiDiD
• Mixtape Sessions
• Applied Metrics
• Spatial Regression Analysis

R

• YaRrr! The Pirate's Guide to R — Basics
• Vector Analysis & Overlays — Humboldt
• RSpatial
• R-Spatial Book

Matlab

• Intro to Matlab — Yanfu Kuo (YouTube)