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

• Stephen Redding – The Transition to PhD Research

• Amy Finkelstein – An Unofficial Guide to Trying to Do Empirical Work

• Nick Hagerty – Reflections on Grad School in Economics (or What I’d Tell My First-Year Self If I Had a Time Machine)

• Jon M. Jachimowicz – Some Thoughts on the Idea Generation Process

• Ben Olken – My Epic Failures

• Frank Schilbach – 5 Steps Toward a Paper

• Matt Lowe Twitter thread – How to Generate Research Ideas

• Paul Niehaus – Doing Research

• Hal Varian – How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time

Working Applied

• Julian Reif – Stata Coding Guide

• Matthew Gentzkow & Jesse M. Shapiro – Code and Data for the Social Sciences: A Practitioner’s Guide

• Luke Stein – Packages for Generating LaTeX Output from Stata Code

Writing

• Marc F. Bellemare – How to Write Applied Papers in Economics

• John H. Cochrane – Writing Tips for Ph. D. Students

• Jonathan B. Berk, Campbell R. Harvey, and David Hirshleifer – How to Write an Effective Referee Report and Improve the Scientific Review Process

• Imran Rasul – Advice on the Publishing Process

• Marc F. Bellemare – How to Publish in Academic Journals

• Plamen Nikolov – Writing Tips for Economics Research Papers

Presenting & Public Speaking

• Anne M. Burton and Barton Willage – List of Economic Conferences

• Rachael Meager – Public Speaking for Academic Economists

• Jesse M. Shapiro – How to Give an Applied Micro Talk

• Kjetil Storesletten – The Ten Commandments for How to Give a Seminar

• Florian Zettelmeyer – Some Pointers for Preparing Presentations

Miscellaneous

• Philip J. Guo – The PhD Grind

• Alex Eble Twitter thread – Advice and Best Practices for Thriving in a PhD, find a comprehensive pdf here

• Kevin H. Wilson Twitter thread – Build a Simple Academic Website

• Matt Clancy – A Beginner’s Guide to #EconTwitter

• The Holloway Guide to Using Twitter

• Anne M. Burton – How I Use #EconTwitter

• Sarah Jacobson – Networking with Twitter

• Zong Huang, Pauline Liang & Dominic Russel – Survey of Pre-Doctoral Research Experiences in Economics and accompanying Data Appendix

• Econ RA Guide