Resources
Below you find resources (e.g. books, presentations, twitter threads, blog posts etc.) that I came across and which help(ed) me along the way. Maybe they are of interest for you as well-have a look!
This collection is work in progress and will be updated on a continued basis. Resources are listed without a particular order.
(Last updated 04/12/2020)
Finding Research Questions
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Stephen Redding – The Transition to PhD Research
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Amy Finkelstein – An Unofficial Guide to Trying to Do Empirical Work
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Nick Hagerty – Reflections on Grad School in Economics (or What I’d Tell My First-Year Self If I Had a Time Machine)
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Jon M. Jachimowicz – Some Thoughts on the Idea Generation Process
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Ben Olken – My Epic Failures
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Frank Schilbach – 5 Steps Toward a Paper
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Matt Lowe Twitter thread – How to Generate Research Ideas
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Paul Niehaus – Doing Research
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Hal Varian – How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time
Working Applied
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Julian Reif – Stata Coding Guide
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Matthew Gentzkow & Jesse M. Shapiro – Code and Data for the Social Sciences: A Practitioner’s Guide
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Luke Stein – Packages for Generating LaTeX Output from Stata Code
Writing
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Marc F. Bellemare – How to Write Applied Papers in Economics
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John H. Cochrane – Writing Tips for Ph. D. Students
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Jonathan B. Berk, Campbell R. Harvey, and David Hirshleifer – How to Write an Effective Referee Report and Improve the Scientific Review Process
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Imran Rasul – Advice on the Publishing Process
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Marc F. Bellemare – How to Publish in Academic Journals
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Plamen Nikolov – Writing Tips for Economics Research Papers
Presenting & Public Speaking
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Anne M. Burton and Barton Willage – List of Economic Conferences
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Rachael Meager – Public Speaking for Academic Economists
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Jesse M. Shapiro – How to Give an Applied Micro Talk
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Kjetil Storesletten – The Ten Commandments for How to Give a Seminar
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Florian Zettelmeyer – Some Pointers for Preparing Presentations
Miscellaneous
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Philip J. Guo – The PhD Grind
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Alex Eble Twitter thread – Advice and Best Practices for Thriving in a PhD, find a comprehensive pdf here
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Kevin H. Wilson Twitter thread – Build a Simple Academic Website
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Matt Clancy – A Beginner’s Guide to #EconTwitter
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Anne M. Burton – How I Use #EconTwitter
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Sarah Jacobson – Networking with Twitter
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Zong Huang, Pauline Liang & Dominic Russel – Survey of Pre-Doctoral Research Experiences in Economics and accompanying Data Appendix