Public goods, templates, and freebies below. This page is honestly just a gateway to other folks' fantastic resources that I use frequently. Many have been co-opted from The Hidden Curriculum podcast and are updated when I'm bored.
You can find code and replication packages on my Github.
You can find code and replication packages on my Github.
Academic Writing
- Keith Head's "formula" for writing introductions in economic research papers
- Marc Bellemare's book Doing Economics and conclusion formula for economic writing
- Claudia Goldin & Lawrence Katz's 10 rules for writing a job market paper
- Some turnaround times for econ & finance journals organized in a very usable app
- Claudia Sahm's advice for writing papers that tell us the important information, first
- Jesse Shapiro's four steps to an applied micro(economics) paper
- Varanya Chaubey's advice in The Little Book of Research Writing and my (derivative) framing outline
- How I conduct a "better" literature review and the related template referenced in slides
Conferences, Presentations, and Discussions
- Jesse Shapiro's notes on how to give an applied micro talk
- Marc Bellemare's 22 tips for conference and seminar presentations + another plug for Doing Economics
- Tips on being a good paper discussant from the Dallas Fed
- Anne Burton & Barton Willage's economics conference list with dates and submission deadlines
- Darren Lubotsky's tips on giving a presentation in economics
- Jonathan Schwabish's Better Presentations and An Economist's Guide to Visualizing Data
- Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham's tips + tricks with Beamer for economists and favorite econ exhibits
- Rachael Meager's advice on public speaking for academic economists
Econometrics and Data
- Gary Chamberlain's econometrics lecture notes compiled by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
- Asjad Naqvi's compendium of DiD advancements and associated statistical packages for implementation
- Vincent Arel-Bundock's blog post on how to implement the Mundlak TWFE estimator in Wooldridge (2022)
- Kyle Butts's explainer on non-traditional difference-in-differences designs and applications
- Nick Huntington-Klein's animated causal inference plots and book, The Effect
- Introduction to Econometrics in R with code, data, and explanations for undergrad-level stats
- Kyle Walker's tidycensus R package and e-book, Analyzing US Census Data: Methods, Maps, and Models in R
- Sebastian Tello-Trillo's primer on where to find data for academic research
- Pietro Biroli's compilation of panel datasets for use in academic research
Coding and Research Workflow
- Julian Reif's coding guide for STATA users that can be easily adapted to many workflows
- My slides on research workflow and the importance of researcher decisions for replicability
- Alex Hollingsworth's research workflow episode on The Hidden Curriculum podcast
- The Stata2R repository for econometrics in STATA and R with intuitive conversions
- Brendan Price's workflow resources for file management, data wrangling, and dissemination