Resources for Graduate Students

A bevy of resources stolen from my mentor and co-author, Shanjun Li, among others, can be found below.

Is a PhD for me?

• The complete guide to getting into an economics PhD program (by Miles Kimball)

• Should you do a PhD? (by Daniel K. Sokol)

• So, you want to go to a grad school in economics? (by Ceyhun Elgin and Mario Solis-Garcia)

• Professional advice for applying to grad school in economics (by Susan Athey)

• How to survive your first year of graduate school in economics (by Matthew Pearson)

Mental Health and Wellbeing

• Mental Health, Bullying, Career Uncertainty (by Colleen Flaherty)

• Grad school depression almost took me to the end of the road—but I found a new start (by Francis Aguisanda)

• Panic and a PhD (by Jack Leeming)

• How mindfulness can help Ph.D. students deal with mental health challenges (by Katie Langin)

• Managing Your Mental Health as a PhD Student (by Joanna Hughes)

• What Makes It So Hard to Ask for Help? (by Joan Rosenberg)

• There’s an awful cost to getting a PhD that no one talks about (by Jennifer Walker)

• Faking it (by Chris Woolston)

How do I do Research?

• How to get started on research in economics? (by Steve Pischke)

• Ph.D. Thesis Research: Where do I Start? (by Don Davis)

• How to build an economic model in your spare time (by Hal R. Varian)

• Doing research (by Paul Niehaus)

• Some Principles and Good Practices to Safeguard Research Ethics (by Chris Barrett)

Coding & Replicability

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

• Coding for Economists: A Language-Agnostic Guide to Programming for Economists (by LJ Ristovska)

• Stata Coding Guide (by Julian Reif)

• Data science for economists (by Grant McDermott)

• Data and Code Guidance by Data Editors (by Lars Vilhuber)

• What is the question (by Jeffery Leek and Roger Peng)

• Twenty tips for interpreting scientific claims (by William Sutherland, David Spiegelhalter and Mark Burgman)

Writing

• Writing tips for PhD students (by John H. Cochrane)

• Writing Tips For Economics Research Papers (by Plamen Nikolov)

• The Ten Most Important Rules of Writing Your Job Market Paper (by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz)

• Writing Papers: A Checklist (by Michael Kremer)

• Aphorisms on Writing, Speaking, and Listening (by Eric Rasmusen)

• Writing a Dissertation (by David Levine)

• The Introduction Formula (by Keith Head)

• Between the Introduction and the Conclusion: The “Middle Bits” Formula for Applied Papers (by Marc F. Bellemare)

• The Conclusion Formula (by Marc F. Bellemare)

Presentation Skills and Tips

• How to Give an Applied Micro Talk (by Jesse M. Shapiro)

• Tips on how to avoid disaster in presentations (by Monika Piazzesi)

• How to Present Results (by David Levine)

• Public Speaking for Academic Economists (by Rachael Meager)

Peer Review & Grants

• Q&A with Larry Katz, editor of QJE (by Berk Özler and David McKenzie)

• How to Write an Effective Referee Report and Improve the Scientific Review Process (by Jonathan Berk, Campell Harvey and David Hirshleifer)

• Preparing a Referee Report:Guidelines and Perspectives (by Jonathan Berk, Campell Harvey and David Hirshleifer)

• Navigating Peer Review (by Chris Barrett)

• All Things Grants (by Chris Barrett)

THE Job Market

• A Guide and Advice for Economists on the U.S. Junior Academic Job Market 2018-2019 edition (by John Cawley)

• UChicago Economics Job Market Advice

• Tips for Job Market (by David Laibson)

• Looking for a Faculty Position? Agricultural Economics vs Economics (by Jason Lusk)

• Scrambling for Economists: The Ph.D. Job Search (by Jessie Romero)

• Going on the Job Market (by David Levine)

• So you want to build an academic website? (by Kevin H. Wilson)

• Thread of advice on econ job market CV’s (by Sarah Jacobson)

• Economist Jobs Outside Academia