Emory Economics PhD Workshop
  • Resources

On this page

  • Acknowledgements
    • Writing and Research
    • Presentations
    • Professional Development
    • Coding and Workflow

Resources

Acknowledgements

I certainly didn’t just sit down and write all of this stuff from scratch. All of this material benefited immensely from other resources. I’ll try to list all of those resources here, although I’m sure I’ve missed something.

Writing and Research

  • Formulae for an Introduction by Keith Head, Body by Marc Bellemare, and Conclusion by Marc Bellemare
  • Ten Most Important Rules of Writing Your Job Market Paper by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz
  • Paper writing gone Hollywood
  • Four steps to an applied micro paper by Jesse Shapiro
  • How to give an applied micro talk by Jesse Shapiro

Presentations

  • Public speaking for academic economists by Rachel Meager
  • Beamer tips for presentations by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

Professional Development

  • The discussant’s art by Chris Blattman
  • Writing referee reports: one by Marc Bellemare, another by Tatyana Deryugina, another by Elisabeth Sadoulet, and another by Berk, Harvey, and Hirshleifer in the JEP
  • How to be a great conference participant by Art Carden

Coding and Workflow

  • Stata coding guide by Julian Reif
  • Code and data for the social sciences by Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro

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