Burden or gift? Vernon Smith on having Asperger Syndrom

In 2002 VernonSmith received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science together with Daniel Kahneman.  I liked his articles from 1976 and 1982 mentioned below on the foundation of experimental economics in which he also outlines a connection of institutions and economic action . In this video he talks about having Asperger Syndrome has maybe enabled him to win the noble prize.

Smith, Vernon (1976): "ExperimentalEconomics: Induced Value Theory". American Economic Review 66 (2): 274–279

Smith, Vernon (1982): "MicroeconomicSystems as an Experimental Science". American Economic Review 72 (5): 923–955

World Freedom Atlas

Today I want to draw your attention to the World Freedom Atlas compiled by Zachary F. Johnson. The Atlas is "an interactive geovisualisation tool for world statistics, designed for social scientists, journalists, NGO/IGO workers and others who wish to have a better understanding of issues of freedom, democracy, human rights and good governance." It covers 300 cross-country indicators from 1990 to 2006 provided by the Quality of Governance Institute in Goteborg, Sweden.
It may be a fast track to check some ideas for cross country comparisons.

Helpful Stata-Links

Here are some helpful Stata-Links for Students.
This site is especially tailored to the needs of business students writing their theses at the Chair of Human Resource Management and Labor Politics at the FU-Berlin. But also others may find something useful:

Interpreting Output:
The ultimate source on the web on this (and many other) topic is the web page of  UCLA Academic Statistical Services. If you don't find it here just google "output stata [stata command here]" or "annotated output [command here]". At this homepage you also find cookbook like recipes for many data analysis jobs:
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/


There are two major .ado-programs which ease the interaction of Stata with your word processor:
Making Tables for publications in Stata:
http://econpapers.repec.org/software/bocbocode/s447101.htm

Making Regression Tables for publications in Stata:
http://repec.org/bocode/e/estout/

 
Special Methods used at the  Chair of Human Resource Management and Labor Politics:

Doing QCA and Fuzzy-Set-Analysis in Stata:
http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=st0140


Other link lists:

Masayuki Kadamatsu try's to to "include really useful Stata webpages only". And orders them according the work-flow of data analysis. I think it worked out:

http://people.su.se/~mkuda/stata.html