Grad School/Research Resources

Economists’ Websites

Claes Backman

Paul Niehaus

Masayuki Kudamtsu - Tips 4 Economists (grad school advice and much more)

Alex Albright - Resources from Others to You

Jennifer Doleac - lots of crime research stuff, plenty more besides

Jonathan Dingel

Shanjun Li

Amanda Y. Agan - aggregated advice on Writing, Presentation, Coding, and Refereeing

Jan Sauermann - resources for writing/presenting research, the editorial process, and the Econ Job Market

Christine Cai - resources for econometrics, coding, grad school, and research

Ryan B Edwards - resources on seminars, discussing, refereeing, data viz, writing papers, publishing, getting started on research, and other useful grad school & econ advice

Andrew Rumbach

Mark J. Chin - resources for education policy and economics of education

General Grad School Advice

AEA Professional Development Resources

AEA CSWEP News - aggregator of writings by economists covering grad school, job market, junior faculty topics, and so on

AEA CSWEP Professional Development Resources

The 12 Step Program for Grad School by Eric Zwick

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

“Out in Five” by David Romer

EconGradAdvice by Roth & Schindler

The Life of a Research Project by Gema Zamarro

Awesome Economics (a curated list of resources) by Anton Tarasenko

How to PhD by eca

Writing Research

Language, Confusion, and Models in Empirical Economics by Phil Haile

Writing Economics by Neugeboren & Jacobson

The Recipe for a Successful Thesis in Applied Economics by Westerlund

Writing, Briefly by Graham

Writing Tips for Ph.D. Students by Cochrane

Writing a Literature Review by Romem

What is a Literature Review? (and How Do I Write One?!) by Shunda

Academic Writing for Accounting and Economics PhDs by Langenmayr

Four Steps to an Applied Micro Paper by Jesse Shapiro

Writing As A Social Scientist by David Eli

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

Writing the Intro to Your Economics Research Paper by Timothy Taylor

Writing Economics Research Papers by Claudia Sahm

JabRef - free reference/literature review manager

An unofficial guide to trying to do empirical work by Amy Finkelstein - how to formulate and write great research ideas

Presenting Research

A Basic Beamer Power Up by Natalia Emmanuel

Tips + Tricks with Beamer for Economists by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

How to Give an Applied Micro Talk by Jesse Shapiro

Public Speaking for Academic Economists by Rachael Meager

22 Tips for Conference and Seminar Presentations by Marc Bellemare

The “Big 5” and Other Ideas For Presentations by Donald Cox

Guidelines for Presentations by Bandiera, et. al.

How to give an economic theory talk by Shengwu Li

Beamer Slide Template (LaTeX) by Kyle Butts

Poster Builder by bio render

Publishing Research

Journals with short paper options where economists might publish by David Evans

Discussing Research

Tips on Being a Good Discussant

The discussant’s art by Chris Blattman

Funding Research

CSWEP Newsletter on Getting Funding for Your Research by Jennifer Doleac

Smaller Funding Opportunities with an Economics Focus by Anne Byrne

Econometrics

A guide to interpreting regression tables by Sevi

A Flowchart for Constructing a Regression Model by Nick HK

Scott Cunningham’s CodeChella

How To Build an Economic Model in Your Spare time by Hal Varian

The Job Market

Suggested Timeline For Those On The Job Market Next Year by Tatyana Deryugina

So you want to go on the job market by Alex Albright

Other

Advice for Academic Research by Ricardo Dahis

Interviews, Advice, Policy Debates, and Commonly Referred to Posts by David McKenzie

AEA Reading Materials - covers many of the relevant topics for being a researcher and economists, such as publishing, teaching, the job market, grants, presenting, etc.

#EconBrew - list of economists across the world open to grabbing coffee with those visiting their location