national longitudinal study 79

Until now I have been so ignorant and disinterested about the source of data used for all these academic papers. I just took it for granted - literally - rather than being inquisitive about where and how these data were processed.

Alas, that's why the experience counts, especially for economists. I realized unless I had an opportunity to write an empirical paper for my seminar, I would not know how to collect data, where I can best find it and arrange it for my use, and how to read it.

I also realized after more than 12 hours of downloading data sets from NLS79, which has not been completed yet, there's some problem with downloading them in my hard disk. Too long to think it's just a large size file, I guess.