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Sites of Interest
University of Michigan
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The University of Michigan. A large Midwest
university with a cosmopolitan flair, Michigan offers challenge and inspiration
in education.
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The Institute for Social Research. The
Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan is the
nation's longest-standing laboratory for interdisciplinary research in the
social sciences.
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The Survey Research Center.
The Survey Research Center was founded in 1946 with the goal of applying the
methods of probability sampling, standardized interviewing, and multivariate
analysis for the benefit of scientific progress and toward the solution of
social problems. SRC is the most heterogeneous of ISR's three Centers, and it
maintains a large cluster of research programs that address problems such as
poverty, wage discrimination, consumers' reactions to fears of inflation or
unemployment, drug use among young people, job or workplace stressors and their
effect on workers' health, and the special needs and aspirations of minority
populations.
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HRS and AHEAD. The Health and
Retirement Study (HRS) and Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old
(AHEAD) are nationally representative longitudinal data collections begun in
the early 1990s that examine retirement and the aging of society.
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Monitoring the Future. Each
year since 1975, Monitoring the Future has surveyed a nationwide sample of high
school seniors. Since 1991, the project has also included nationwide samples of
8th and 10th grade students. In addition, annual follow-up surveys are mailed
to a sample of each graduating class for a number of years after their initial
participation.
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The Research Center for Group Dynamics.
RCGD's goal is to advance the understanding of human behavior in a societal
context.
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The Center for Political Studies.
The Center for Political Studies (CPS) is an interdisciplinary and
collaborative social science research unit of international scope housed within
the largest university-based social research facility in the world, the
University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. CPS seeks to
understand, measure, analyze, and model individual behavior and the role of
institutions within the context of contemporary society's social, political,
and economic processes.
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Inter-university Consortium for Political and
Social Research. The Inter-university Consortium for Political and
Social Research (ICPSR), located within the Institute for Social Research at
the University of Michigan, is a membership-based, not-for-profit organization
serving member colleges and universities in the United States and abroad.
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The Population Studies Center.
The Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan (PSC) is one of the
oldest population centers in the United States, with a distinguished record in
both domestic and international population research. Established in 1961 with a
grant from the Ford Foundation, the Center has a rich history as the main
workplace for an interdisciplinary community of scholars in the field of
population studies.
Information Providers
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B&E DataLinks. B&E
DataLinks is a project sponsored by the Business and Economic
Statistics (B&E) Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA).
This site contains links to data sources of interest to economists and business
statisticians. They provide users with a comprehensive set of links to data
sites on the Web along with a user-based assessment of the quality of each
site. Visitors rate the
PSID as "Excellent."
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Center for Basic Research in the Social
Sciences The mission of the center is to foster and improve social
scientific research at Harvard, with an emphasis on the application of
empirical methods and formal theories to systematic research in government,
politics, political economy, public policy, and other related areas.
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The Centre for Social Policy (CSP) at
the University of Antwerp (Belgium) was founded in 1972 by Professor Herman
Deleeck. The Centre operates as part of the Department of Sociology and Social
Policy at the University of Antwerp (U.F.S.I.A.), and the Centre is currently
headed by Dr. Bea Cantillon. The Centre's principal objective is to measure the
effectiveness and to evaluate the adequacy of social policies.
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Deutches Institut Fur Wirtschaftsforschung.
The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) was founded in 1925 as the
"Institute for Business Research" and acquired its new name in 1941.
The DIW is located in Berlin. One of the six leading institutes for economic
research in the Federal Republic of Germany, the DIW is exclusively committed
as an independent institute to academic pursuits in the public interest.
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Harvard-MIT Data Center. The
Harvard-MIT Data Center is the principal distributor of quantitative social
science data at Harvard University the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and the University of Michigan. It serves as the universities' official
representative to the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social
Research (ICPSR), the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, and the
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), provides access to Murray Center
student datasets, Social Sciences Program Data and is a central contact point
for many other archives and data suppliers. We maintain a large library of
electronic data from all these sources, a growing collection of unique data
sets, and an extensive codebook library. Few other university data centers
approach the quantity of social science data that passes through here on a
regular basis.
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Joint Center for Poverty Research.
Northwestern University / University of Chicago. Supports academic research
that examines what it means to be poor and live in America. The Poverty Center
focuses on the causes of poverty and the effectiveness of policies aimed at
reducing poverty. Key areas of research include: changing labor markets and the
causes of inequality in the current labor market; family functioning and the
well-being of children; the impact of concentrated urban poverty; and the
effects in these domains - and others - of changing policy and new programs.
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The Korean Social Science Data Center
(KSDC). Established on November 15, 1997, the goal of the institution
is to manage, accumulate and offer for use international social science data
sets. KSDC specializes in Korean data sets, but offers ICPSR data sets, too.
International users can link to KSDC for Korean data sets of social sciences
via ICPSR. Additionally, KSDC will link to other valuable sites to support
researchers' versatile demands. KSDC places special importance on the building
of institutional ties all over the world to facilitate the linkages of data
archives.
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The Maxwell School Center for Policy
Research (CPR). The Maxwell School Center for Policy Research (CPR)
supersedes and encompasses the Metropolitan Studies and Aging Studies programs
of the Maxwell School, established in 1961 and 1990, respectively. It is also
the administrative home of the All-University Gerontology Center. CPR conducts
a broad range of interdisciplinary research and related activities in the areas
of: aging, disability and income security policy; domestic urban and regional
issues; public finance; and problems of economic development in less
industrialized countries.
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Department of Policy Analysis and
Management at Cornell University (PAM). The mission of the Department
of Policy Analysis and Management in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell
University is to uphold nationally recognized programs through research,
teaching, and outreach in family and social welfare, health, and consumer
policy in terms of its application through program planning, management and
evaluation. Each PAM faculty member brings a rigorous disciplinary focus to the
multidisciplinary problems associated with formulating, implementing, managing,
and evaluating public sector programs. With funds from the National Institute
on Aging Program Project "The Well-Being of the Elderly in a Comparative
Context", The Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell
University has prepared, in collaboration with the University of Michigan and
the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), the Cross-National Equivalent
File 1980-1997 (see German
Socio-Economic Panel at Cornell University ).
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Resources for Economists on the Internet.
Editor: Bill Goffe. This is the hypertext version of my guide that lists the
many resources on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing
economists, and those interested in economics.
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William Barnett's Recommendations.
Professor of economics at Washington University; Editor of the Cambridge
University Press monograph series, International Symposia in Economic Theory
and Econometrics, and CUP's new journal, Macroeconomic Dynamics.
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USDA Community Food Security Initiative.
Programs
Software
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Adobe Acrobat The free Adobe(R) Acrobat(R)
Reader allows you to view, navigate, and print PDF files across all major
computing platforms.
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PKWARE. PKZIP for DOS, Windows and
OpenVMS.
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WinZip. Brings the convenience of Windows
to the use of ZIP files. WinZip features built-in support for popular Internet
file formats, including TAR, gzip, Unix compress, UUencode, BinHex, and MIME.
ARJ, LZH, and ARC files are supported via external programs.
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The Internal Revenue Service.
Tax Forms Forms and instructions from 1992 to the present are provided in PDF
format.
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