Resources

Useful material for empirical research.

I maintain these guides and notes to make environmental and economic research easier to start, reproduce, and extend.

Data guides

Finding and understanding data

A note on satellite imagery data

Introduction Where to find the data How to use the data Introduction I have seen more and more papers utilizing satellite imagery data, especially in the environmental economics domain. There are many benefits of using t

A collection of climate, air pollution, disaster, and nature resources data for the US and the world

Note that almost all the data can be found at NASA’s Earthdata Search Climate data gridMET (historical) MACA (projected) WorldClim (historical + projected) Historical data Projected data NEX-GDDP from NASA ERA5-Land Hour

Climate and air pollution data in China

Data on PM5.2 Global Annual PM2.5 Grids from MODIS, MISR and SeaWiFS Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) with GWR, v1 (1998 –2016) MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Tracking Air Pollution in China Data on SO2 O

Health data in China

An integrated national mortality surveillance system by CCDC China Health Insurance Research Association (CHIRA) The impacts of climate change and air pollution on human health have gained privilege in the environmental

Sub-national level administrative areas

Database of Global Administrative Areas (GADM) Natural Earth This post documents interesting sources for world-level, country-level, and sub-national level (i.e., states/provinces, cities, counties, etc) maps (administra

Mirco-level data in China

Introduction China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS) Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) Urban Household Survey (UHS) Chinese Family Panel Studies (CFPS) China Heal

Notes in R

Methods and research workflow

A RUC (Renmin University of China) LaTex beamer template in R Markdown

Note that this template was derived from the template for TAMU which I posted in 2021.

Creating a separate section for working papers on your website

I spent quite some time figuring out how to present publications and working papers independently in separate sections. Most importantly, I’d like working papers to be displayed in the same format as a publication. See e

Problems I encountered while creating tables for regression results in R

Select variables to be reported in the table Present underscores as text Customize the t statistics and p values Add lines in the table In many circumstances, we need to create nice tables from regression results and pre

How to do clustering for panel data model in R

An introduction of clustering in panel data models Clustering in R Importing the data Running the fixed effect model Clustering the standard erros Takeaways Reference An introduction of clustering in panel data models In

Statistical Inference in Casual Settings

Introduction Robust standard errors Clustering in group data Serial correlation in panel data Conclusion Reference Introduction There are particularly two concerns regarding the statistical inferences on causal effects:

A TAMU LaTex beamer template in R Markdown

Here I present a LaTex template for beamer presentation in R Markdown that is designed for Texas A&M University (TAMU)

Start your first post with blogdown website

Start your first post Customize your first post How to embed images in your website Insert images via Insert Image in Addins Insert images with Knitr::include_graphic After you successfully create your website with blogd

Building your personal website with R blogdown

Some tips on building your personal website with R blogdown