Resources
A collection of advice and tools I often share with students and colleagues — on the job market, applying to grad school, and doing empirical research.
1 Economics academic job market
- Let's get ready! — my presentation to job candidates as part of the placement committee
- Advice from John Cawley — on the job market
- Advice from Alex Eble — job market, PhD life and development work
- Advice from Chris Blattman — managing the academic job market
- Jen Doleac's curated list — threads and resources on the job market, PhD life, etc.
- Professional development opportunities — compiled by CSWEP
- How to write a good diversity statement — Marc Bellemare
2 Applying for grad studies in Economics
- Should I get a PhD? — advice from Chris Blattman
- Advice on econ grad school — Susan Athey
- The hidden curriculum of grad school applications — thread by Gina Peters
- Writing the PhD SOP / research statement — thread by Roman Feiman
3 A somewhat random collection of useful links
- Handbook of field experiments — J-PAL
- Please use p-values properly — ASA's six principles of p-values
- 5 uses for baseline surveys — World Bank Development Impact
- Technical one-stop shop — David McKenzie's curated list
- Stata cheat sheet
- R cheat sheets
- Code and data guide — Gentzkow & Shapiro, and Coding for Economists
- Where to find data — Sebastian Tello Trillo's guide
- Small grants for PhD students — open spreadsheet started by Anne Byrne (Dyson alum!)
- Economics conferences — crowdsourced list by Anne Burton (Dyson alum!) and Barton Willage