Cool stuff
Research
Writing
- Varanya Chaubey's Little Book of Research Writing is fantastic for help with structure.
- Deirde McCloskey's Economical Writing points out that most writing is crap at the first draft and shows how to improve the final product.
- Amanda Agan's collection of links.
Literature reviews
- See the literature as a network.
Seminars
- Jonathan Shewchuk's advice on giving academic talks. Filled with so many gems such as "The plain absurdity of modern academic talks would be glaring if we hadn't all pickled in it for so long".
- For slides, use slides.com rather than Beamer. If you must use Beamer, follow this advice.
Conferences
- Tips for giving a 15 minute talk.
Posters
Field experiments
- Declare and analyse your research design using Declare Design.
- Register a concise pre-analysis plan on AsPredicted.org.
- DABEST way to show treatment effects is Data Analysis using Bootstrap-Coupled ESTimation.
Data
- Free, easy to use geographic data from Aid Data.
Publishing
- Turnaround times at leading journals in economics.
- Summarise your research using a gif.
Guides
- Delia Furtado's Guide To Doing Economics.
- Tips to enjoy a career as an economics researcher.
Even more links
- Masayuki Kudamatsu has a great collection of links, my inspiration for this page.
- Christoph Kronenberg's list of links to fill the gaps in your economics education.
- Ryan B. Edwards's list of links, focussed on PhD students.
- Jennifer Doleac's nice list of Twitter threads.
Study
PhD in Economics
- Chris Blattman has a very comprehensive guide to graduate school applications.
- It may be a good idea to be a research assistant before applying for a PhD. Check out NBER's job board.
- Michele Tertilt provides advice for PhD students.
- AEA's Resources for Economists.
- The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D. by Matt Might. He has a bunch of other useful posts.
Econ job market
- Jason Blevins has collected a great set of links.
- Tool for generating multiple cover letters in the same format.
- An extremely subjective outline of the economics job market by Gray Calhoun.
- Anonymous job market advice.
Programming
Data visualisation
- Use Data-to-viz to choose a graph type based on the data.
Python
- Kevin Sheppard has a great book, Python for Econometrics.
- Quantitative Economics by Thomas J. Sargent and John Stachurski.
- And John Stachurski's book, A Primer in Econometric Theory.
- Chris Albon's collection of tips and code examples.
- Extracting text from PDF files.
- Graph gallery.
LaTeX
- Quick guide.
- Find a specific Latex symbol by drawing it.
- Comprehensive Symbol List.
- Chad Jones's amazing LaTeX template.
- Tufte inspired LaTeX template.
R
- Comparison R and Stata commands by Oscar Torres-Reyna at Princeton.
- A very useful collection of links to learn R.
- Nathaniel D. Phillips's YaRrr! The Pirate's Guide to R.
- Barton Poulson's video tutorials.
- R for Data Science textbook.
- Resources for doing Data Journalism with R.
Jekyll
- Awesome guide on setting up a Jekyll blog with Github Pages.
Online learning
- David Venturi has compiled reviews of online courses related to data science.
Teaching
Admin
- Tool for meeting with students.
- Feedback form templates from Vanderbilt.
Visualisations
- Awesome visualisations of the main concepts in statistics.
- Spurious Correlations to motivate careful econometrics.
- Correlations need scatter plots. Jan Vanhove shows how radically different data can generate the same correlation coefficient.
Textbooks
- Scott Cunningham's Causal Mixtape.
- LOST, Library of Statistical Techniques.
- Maximilian Kasy's Empirical Research on Economic Inequality.
Syllabus
- Teaching economics using Nobel Prize winners.
Tools
- Julien Picault's website describing tons of tools to improve economics teaching.
- Mario Samano's interactive graphs.
- Animated plots of methods for causal inference by Nick Huntington-Klein.
Other cool stuff
Visualisations to provide perspective
- Wealth as pixels.
- Photos of families sorted by income on GapMinder.
Design
- Colours Cafe for colour palettes.