Public and Free Economics Courses & Textbooks

Econometrics

Causal Inference: The Mixtape by Scott Cunningham

Causal Inference Mixtape Sessions by Cunningham and Butts

Econometrics III Course by Ed Rubin

Applied Empirical Methods by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

Gary Chamberlain’s Grad Econometrics Course compiled by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

Statistical Learning and Causal Inference for Economics by Francis J. DiTraglia

Advanced Data Analytics in Economics by Nick Hagerty

Causal Inference for the Brave and True by Matheus Facure Alves

The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality by Nick Huntington-Klein

Also: The Effect: Videos on Causal Inferences by Nick Huntington-Klein

Applied Statistics Workshop Presentations from Harvard

Causal Inference Lectures by Ben Elsner

Advances in Difference-in-Differences in Econometrics by YoungStatS

Causal Econometrics by David Childers

Regression and Other Stories by Gelman, Hill, Vehtari

Instrumental Variables Workshop by Peter Hull

STAT 501: Regression Methods by Penn State Department of Statistics

PhD Econometrics Course by Stanislav Avdeev

Gov 2003: Causal Inference with Applications by Matthew Blackwell

Macroeconomics

International Macroeconomics and Trade Course by Jonathan Dingel

Intermediate Macroeconomics Course by Pascal Michaillat

Lecture Videos, Code & Data from the Stanford Big-Data Initiative in International Macro-Finance by Matteo Maggiori, et. al.

Mathematical Methods for Macroeconomics by Pascal Michaillat

Monetary Policy, Inflation, and the Business Cycle by Jordi Gali

Modern Macroeconomics by Sanjay K. Chugh

Labor Economics

David Autor’s MIT Courses

Graduate Labor Course by Florian Oswald

Key Papers Every Labor Economics PhD student should know by David Neumark (crowdsourced on Twitter)

Development Economics

Course Notes on Development & Metrics Grad Courses by Simon Quinn

Survey methods - curated blogs by Kondylis and McKenzie - posts on issues of measurement, survey design, sampling, survey checks, managing survey teams, reducing attrition, and all the behind-the-scenes work needed to get the data needed for impact evaluations

Technical Topics – Your One-Stop Shop for Methodology by Kondylis and McKenzie - posts on methodological issues in impact evaluation

An Introduction to Development Economics With a Focus on Data by Rachel Glennerster

How to Write the Introduction of Your Development Economics Paper by David Evans

Impact Evaluation in International Development : Theory, Methods and Practice by Glewwe, Todd

Introduction to randomized evaluations by Gibson, Sautmann, Feeney, Walsh

How to Run Surveys: A Guide to Creating Your Own Identifying Variation and Revealing the Invisible by Stefanie Stantcheva

Public Economics/Policy

Program Evaluation for Public Service by Andrew Heiss

Teaching materials for Innovation: Market Failures and Public Policies by Williams, Bryan

Other

Course notes for UC Berkeley Econ Classes by Kristy Kim

AEA Continuing Education Courses

Health Economics Teaching Materials Repository by ASHEcon

Data Science in Economics course by Nick Hagerty - skills/tools that otherwise are only gained through RA experiences

Note: I have compiled many open source courses and textbooks on data science/programming topics as well, and those can be found in the Data Science tab.