Intermediate Microeconomics California State University, Sacramento Department of Economics College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies Spring 2004
Instructor Overview Resources Syllabus Assignments
Libraries Web Sites Newspapers Research Other Resources	Libraries   CSU, Sacramento http://www.lib.csus.edu/index.htm Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/ MELVYL® via the web http://www.dbs.cdlib.org/ California State Library http://ferguson.library.ca.gov/ Sacramento Public Library http://www.saclibrary.org/ CSUS Databases http://www.lib.csus.edu/databases/ Recommended Databases (full text accessible through campus computers): JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/ Science Direct http://www.sciencedirect.com/ National Bureau of Economic Research http://www.nber.org/search/ Ingenta http://www.ingenta.com/ EBSCO EBSCOhost- Academic Search
	Data Sources Census 2000 www.census.gov, use STF3, American FactFinder Current Population Survey  www.bls.census.gov/cps Employment Development Department www.edd.ca.gov FRED St. Louis Fed http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred National Center for Education Statistics, NCES, http://nces.ed.gov/ccd National Survey of College Graduates, select survey methodology, and request CDROM  http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/snscg/cgmeth.htm California Department of Education: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ope/sarc/data/definitions02.htm Medical Expenditure Panel Survey:  http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/ National Health Interview Survey:  http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm UC DATA:  http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/ RAND California:  http://ca.rand.org/stats/statistics.html
	Web Sites How to use Excel for statistical analysis: Colin Cameron's Excel worksheets http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/cameron/excel/excel.html
	Newspapers   Sacramento Bee http://www.sacbee.com/ Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/ New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/ Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/
	Research The following websites provide excellent access to economic analyses, and current government policy issues.  Most publications are available free over the Internet.  I encourage you to visit these sites, first to recognize the scope of information available to you, and then throughout the semester to assist in completing assignments or as references for class discussion.  The Legislative Analyst’s Office, California (LAO) http://www.lao.ca.gov/ The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) http://www.cbo.gov/ Social Security Administration, Office of Policy http://www.ssa.gov/policy/pubs/ The RAND Institute http://www.rand.org/publications/electronic/ The Little Hoover Commission http://www.lhc.ca.gov/lhc.html California Research Bureau (CRB) http://www.library.ca.gov/html/statseg2a.cfm The General Accounting Office http://www.gao.gov/ California State Senate (for current legislation) http://www.sen.ca.gov/ California State Assembly (for current legislation) http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/defaulttext.asp Official California Legislative Information (for current legislation) http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/ Federal Researve Bank of San Francisco http://www.frbsf.org/economics/index.html
	Other Resources   CNN http://www.cnn.com/ Public Broadcasting System http://www.pbs.org/

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Updated: June 18, 1999