(Research) Resources I collected over the years

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 29/10/2023)

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

Experimental Economics

• Ryan Oprea \& Sevgi Yuksel – Experimental Economics

• John A. List – A Course in Experimental Economics

• Czibor, Jimenez-Gomez and List – The Dozen Things Experimental Economists Should Do (More of)

• Ludwig/Kling/Mullainathan – Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations

Working Applied

• Coder’s Corner

• Julian Reif – Stata Coding Guide

• Daniel M. Sullivan – Best Practices When Writing Code

• 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

• R for Data Science

• Efficient R Programming

• Oscar Baruffa – Big Book of R

• Florian Oswald, Vincent Viers, Jean-Marc Robin, Pierre Villedieu, Gustave Kenedi – Introduction to Econometrics with R

• To R from Stata: An Introduction

• R for Stata Users

• Stata2R

• Emily Farris – Teaching Myself R

• Asjad Naqvi – The Awesome Stata Tips Collection!

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

• Neale Mahoney – Principles for Combining Descriptive and Model-Based Analysis in Applied Microeconomics Research

Presenting & Public Speaking

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

• Conferences for Behavioral and Experimental Economists

• My First Grant: Smaller Funding Opportunities with an Economics Focus

• Journals with Short Paper Options Where Economists Might Publish via Dave Evans

• Free lists of Grants and Fellowships Around the World: Graduate Students, Postdocs and Junior Faculty

• 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

• Jonathan A. Schwabish – An Economist’s Guide to Visualizing Data

• Eric Zwick – A Graph is Worth a Thousand Citations

Collected Wisdom and Tips

• ESA Job Market Candidates Seminar Series

• European Job Market-Candidate Directory

• Alex Albright – So You Want to Go on the Job Market and accompanying twitter thread

• Kim Fe Cramer/Kerry Siani – Job Market Tips - Slides

• Kim Fe Cramer/Kerry Siani – Job Market Tips - Frequently Asked Interview Questions

• Natalia Emanuel – Job Market Experience twitter threads: First round interviews, in-person interviews and remote flyouts

• Chris Blattman – Managing the Academic Job Market

• World Bank Blogs – What is the Profile of Leading Development Economists on the PhD Job Market?

• World Bank Blogs – A Wrap-Up of Our Job Market Blog Post Series

• Jon M. Jachimowicz – Job Market Q\&A

• Ryan Hill – Co-Authoring JMP With Other Grad Student

PhD Life

• P.J. Healy – The Backwards Induction Approach to Grad School… and Other Random Advice

• Gian-Carlo Rota –Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Before I Started Teaching Differential Equations

• Eric Zwick – The 12 Step Program for Grad School

• Ariel Rubinstein – 10 Q&A: Experienced Advice for “Lost” Graduate Students in Economics

• Philip J. Guo – The PhD Grind

• Luke Stein – Economics Core Notes

• Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham – Applied Empirical Methods Course

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

Knowledge Management and Productivity

• Sönke Ahrens – How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers

• Cal Newport – Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

• James Clear – Atomic Habits: An Easy \& Proven Way to Build Good Habits \& Break Bad Ones

• Tiago Forte – Building a Second Brain

• The Zettelkasten Method

• Awesome Knowledge Management

Books

• Marc F. Bellemare – Doing Economics: What You Should Have Learned in Grad School–But Didn’t

• Simon Bowmaker – The Art and Practice of Economics Research, all chapters are posted: Email me if you do not want to search endlessly on Twitter

• Simon Bowmaker – The Heart of Teaching Economics, all chapters are posted: Email me if you do not want to search endlessly on Twitter

• Joseph Henrich – The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

Creating an (Academic) Website

• I gave a short presentation how I approached creating my website. You can find the presentation here.

• Alex Hollingsworth – Create a Simple and a Free Job Market Website

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

Miscellaneous

• Sangmin S. Oh – Plausibly Exogenous Galore

• Ben Kuhn – How to Make Video Calls Almost as Good as Face-to-Face

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

• Daniel S. Quintana – Twitter for Scientists

• The Holloway Guide to Using Twitter

• Anne M. Burton – How I Use #EconTwitter

• Sarah Jacobson – Networking with Twitter

• Econ RA Guide

• Scarlet Chen – My Journey Into Econ PhD

Podcasts

• Cal Newport – Deep Questions

• Ezra Klein – The Ezra Klein Show

• Dan Quintana/James Heathers – Everything Hertz: Methodology, Scientific Life, and Bad Language

• Sebastian Tello-Trillo – The Hidden Curriculum

• Tyler Cowen – Conversations with Tyler

• Russ Roberts – EconTalk