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Introduction

Below is a list of resources you might find useful to navigate graduate school. Many of the resources below I first encountered in this list, which has much more.

  • Paul Graham. “Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule.” html

  • Axel Leijonhufvud, “Life Among the Econ,” Economic Inquiry 11, no. 3 (September 1, 1973): 327–37. pdf / html

Researching

  • Hal Varian, “How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time”, 1997. pdf

  • Ariel Rubinstein, “10 Q&A: Experienced Advice for “Lost” Graduate Students in Economics". pdf

  • Steve Pischke, “How to get started on research in economics?”, 2012. pdf

  • Amy Finkelstein, “An unofficial guide to trying to do empirical work”, 2017. ppt

Writing

  • Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz, “The Ten Most Important Rules of Writing Your Job Market Paper.” pdf

  • John Cochrane, “Writing Tips.” pdf

  • David Levine, “David Levine’s Cheap Advice for Writing a Dissertation” html

Coding

  • Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse M. Shapiro, “Code and Data for the Social Sciences: A Practitioner’s Guide”. html

  • Michael Ernst, “Version control concepts and best practices.” html

  • Benjamin S. Skrainka, “Enhance Your Productivity and Software Quality with Techniques from Silicon Valley.” pdf

Presenting

  • Adam Guren, “How To Give a Lunch Talk”. pdf

  • Jesse Shapiro, “How to give an applied micro talk.” (applies equally well for applied macro talks) pdf

  • David Levine, “David Levine’s Cheap Advice for Presenting Results.” html

  • Tim Kehoe, “Tips on Preparing for the Workshop”, May 2001. pdf

  • Goldstein and Evans, “Making a short presentation based on your research: 11 tips”, 2016. html

  • Matthew O. Jackson, “Notes on Presenting a Paper”, Fall 1998. pdf

Other

  • Isaiah Berlin, “The Hedgehog and the Fox”, 1953. pdf

  • R Graphics Cookbook, 2nd edition. html

  • Novartis, “Graphics Principles - Cheat Sheet V1.0.” pdf

  • Hal R. Varian, “Big Data: New Tricks for Econometrics,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 28, no. 2 (May 2014): 3–28. pdf / html