My Library & Resources
A curated collection of online resources in applied econometrics, impact evaluation, development economics, and agricultural and climate policy.
Econometric Academy, free courses and tutorials on econometrics using Stata and R
One-Stop Shop for Methodology, World Bank’s Development Impact
Measurement and Survey Design, World Bank’s Development Impact
Econometrics with R
Econometrics with Python and Computational Economics with Python
Data Science Tools
Open Courseware, MIT Economics
EGAP Methods Hub
Causal Inference: The Mixtape (Scott Cunningham)
The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality (Nick Huntington-Klein)
Handbook on Impact Evaluation Quantitative Methods and Practices, World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
Impact Evaluation in Practice, Second Edition, World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
Impact Evaluation - An Overview, Lori Beaman, Development Economist at Northwestern University
Impact Evaluation Helps Deliver Development Projects, World Bank Group Policy Research Working Paper
Impact Evaluation in Practice - Second Edition, World Bank Group
BetterEvaluation Rainbow Framework, evaluation methods/approaches
Sustainable Development: The 17 Goals. United Nation’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Online Courses on Gender, Food Security, climate smart agriculture, market and livelihood assessments, resilience in food security systems, migration, rural development, digital agriculture, introduction to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and more. FAO elearning Academy, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Donut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by - Kate Raworth
Data for Development, online links to a variety of micro and macro datasets for empirical development economists, by Professor Markus Eberhardt (UoN)
Data Resources and important Databases for Economists, compiled by Canh Dang Thein (King’s College London)
World Bank Microdata Library
IFPRI HarvestChoice / CELL5M
Ag Data, by Aaron Smith (UC Berkeley)
UC Berkeley ARE Library — Data Sources
University of Tennessee Knoxville — Online & Data Resources for Ag & Resource Econ
Foundational US Agricultural Data
USDA NASS Quick Stats API, county/state/national crop yields, acreage, and prices, with R/Python wrappers (rnassqs, tidyUSDA)
Census of Agriculture, full agricultural census every 5 years, national/state/county tables back to 1997
NASS Special Tabulations & Restricted-Use Microdata, farm-level (not just county) microdata access for qualified researchers
USDA ERS Data Products, Commodity Costs & Returns, ARMS farm survey, Farm Income & Wealth Statistics
ARMS (Agricultural Resource Management Survey), USDA’s flagship farm-level survey on finances, practices, and technology adoption
Crop & Land Use Geospatial Data
USDA Cropland Data Layer (CDL), annual satellite-derived crop-specific land cover, continental US since 2008, 10m resolution
CDL via Google Earth Engine, same dataset, queryable directly without downloading rasters
CroplandCROS, interactive viewer for CDL plus crop frequency and cultivated-land layers
Climate & Weather Data
gridMET (Climatology Lab, U. Idaho), daily 4km-resolution US weather data since 1979 (temp, precip, humidity, wind)
PRISM Climate Group, foundational 4km gridded weather dataset since ~1895
MACA Downscaled Climate Projections, bias-corrected CMIP5 projections at 4km resolution for climate-adaptation research
Agro-Climatic Data by County (ACDC), ready-to-use county panel combining NASS yields with PRISM-derived growing degree days and precipitation
Climate Risk & Resilience
USDA RMA Summary of Business / Cause of Loss Data, county-crop-level crop insurance participation, premiums, and indemnities by cause of loss
NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, county-level US storm/disaster data with damage estimates since 1950
EM-DAT, global disaster database (registration required)
Curated by Other Researchers
Ag Data (Aaron Smith, UC Berkeley), curated ag/natural-resource data links plus R code and interactive apps for NASS, RMA data
Ag Data News (Aaron Smith), weekly short data-driven posts on ag-econ questions, often with R code
Data Sources and Links (Wolfram Schlenker, Harvard Kennedy School), raw weather data and Stata code for constructing balanced-panel daily weather data from PRISM
A Collection of Climate, Air Pollution, Disaster, and Nature Resources Data (Yabin Da), curated US/global climate datasets annotated with the economics papers that used each one
Econometric Academy, free courses and tutorials on econometrics using Stata and R
One-Stop Shop for Methodology, World Bank’s Development Impact
Measurement and Survey Design, World Bank’s Development Impact
Econometrics with R
Econometrics with Python and Computational Economics with Python
Data Science Tools
Open Courseware, MIT Economics
EGAP Methods Hub
Causal Inference: The Mixtape (Scott Cunningham)
The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality (Nick Huntington-Klein)
Handbook on Impact Evaluation Quantitative Methods and Practices, World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
Impact Evaluation in Practice, Second Edition, World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
Impact Evaluation - An Overview, Lori Beaman, Development Economist at Northwestern University
Impact Evaluation Helps Deliver Development Projects, World Bank Group Policy Research Working Paper
Impact Evaluation in Practice - Second Edition, World Bank Group
BetterEvaluation Rainbow Framework, evaluation methods/approaches
Sustainable Development: The 17 Goals. United Nation’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Online Courses on Gender, Food Security, climate smart agriculture, market and livelihood assessments, resilience in food security systems, migration, rural development, digital agriculture, introduction to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and more. FAO elearning Academy, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Donut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by - Kate Raworth
Data for Development, online links to a variety of micro and macro datasets for empirical development economists, by Professor Markus Eberhardt (UoN)
Data Resources and important Databases for Economists, compiled by Canh Dang Thein (King’s College London)
World Bank Microdata Library
IFPRI HarvestChoice / CELL5M
Ag Data, by Aaron Smith (UC Berkeley)
UC Berkeley ARE Library — Data Sources
University of Tennessee Knoxville — Online & Data Resources for Ag & Resource Econ
Foundational US Agricultural Data
USDA NASS Quick Stats API, county/state/national crop yields, acreage, and prices, with R/Python wrappers (rnassqs, tidyUSDA)
Census of Agriculture, full agricultural census every 5 years, national/state/county tables back to 1997
NASS Special Tabulations & Restricted-Use Microdata, farm-level (not just county) microdata access for qualified researchers
USDA ERS Data Products, Commodity Costs & Returns, ARMS farm survey, Farm Income & Wealth Statistics
ARMS (Agricultural Resource Management Survey), USDA’s flagship farm-level survey on finances, practices, and technology adoption
Crop & Land Use Geospatial Data
USDA Cropland Data Layer (CDL), annual satellite-derived crop-specific land cover, continental US since 2008, 10m resolution
CDL via Google Earth Engine, same dataset, queryable directly without downloading rasters
CroplandCROS, interactive viewer for CDL plus crop frequency and cultivated-land layers
Climate & Weather Data
gridMET (Climatology Lab, U. Idaho), daily 4km-resolution US weather data since 1979 (temp, precip, humidity, wind)
PRISM Climate Group, foundational 4km gridded weather dataset since ~1895
MACA Downscaled Climate Projections, bias-corrected CMIP5 projections at 4km resolution for climate-adaptation research
Agro-Climatic Data by County (ACDC), ready-to-use county panel combining NASS yields with PRISM-derived growing degree days and precipitation
Climate Risk & Resilience
USDA RMA Summary of Business / Cause of Loss Data, county-crop-level crop insurance participation, premiums, and indemnities by cause of loss
NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, county-level US storm/disaster data with damage estimates since 1950
EM-DAT, global disaster database (registration required)
Curated by Other Researchers
Ag Data (Aaron Smith, UC Berkeley), curated ag/natural-resource data links plus R code and interactive apps for NASS, RMA data
Ag Data News (Aaron Smith), weekly short data-driven posts on ag-econ questions, often with R code
Data Sources and Links (Wolfram Schlenker, Harvard Kennedy School), raw weather data and Stata code for constructing balanced-panel daily weather data from PRISM
A Collection of Climate, Air Pollution, Disaster, and Nature Resources Data (Yabin Da), curated US/global climate datasets annotated with the economics papers that used each one
Academic Webinar (2026): Climate Shocks, Household Food Security, and Welfare in Afghanistan. Stanford University (FSE, Center for South Asia, Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies). Apr 22, 2026. [Event | Slides | Video]
Presentation (2023): Crop Diversification and Farm Household Welfare during Conflict: Afghanistan 2011-2017. 6th MaDE Workshop on Emerging and Developing Countries. Download slides. Loughborough Business School, online. Jun 5–6, 2023. [slides]
Presentation-virtual (2021): Assessing the Impact of Sand and Dust storms on Agriculture. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Apr 7–11, 2021. [slides]
Presentation (2020): Salinization in Marginal Agricultural Areas: Implications for Global Food Security and Poverty. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), Dubai, UAE. Apr 15, 2020. [slides]
PhD Conference, UON (2018), Tests for Separability and Factor Market Participation Under Transaction Costs. Apr 15-18, 2018. [slides]
PhD Conference, UON (2017), Status, Patterns and Microeconomics Drivers of Diversity in Crop Production: Evidence from Afghanistan. Apr 25-27, 2017. [slides]
PhD Conference, UON, (2016), Crop Diversification and Technical Efficiency in Afghanistan: Stochastic Frontier Analysis. Sep 10-12, 2016. [slides]