Writing, Presentation, Coding, and Refereeing Advice
Links to great (and brief) writing and presentation advice for economists and social scientists from around the web. Collected here because I kept having to google the various resources to share with my students. Will add as I find things, mostly on twitter. Please inform me of any broken links or incorrect attributions:
Writing papers:
- The Introduction Formula (Keith Head)
- The Conclusion Formula (Marc Bellemare)
- The "Middle Bits" Formula (Marc Bellemare)
- Four Steps to an Applied Micro Paper (Jesse Shapiro)
- Writing Tips for Ph.D. Students (John Cochrane)
- Ten Most Important Rules of Writing your Job Market Paper (Claudia Goldin and Larry Katz)
Making Slides/Giving Presentations
- How to Give an Applied Micro Talk (Jesse Shapiro)
- Public Speaking for Academic Economists (Rachel Meager)
- How to Give a Great Seminar (Alex Tabarrok)
- How to Make Academic Presentations (Berthold Herrendorf)
- The Discussant's Art (Chris Blattman)
- How to be a Great Conference Participants (Art Carden)
- Beamer Tips for Presentations (Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham) [source code]
Coding/File Organization Advice
- Stata Coding Guide (Julian Reif)
- Code and Data for the Social Sciences: A Practitioner's Guide (Matt Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro)
- Data Science for Economists (Grant McDermott) [Includes slides on version control with git and webscraping info]
Refereeing Advice
- Preparing a Referee Report: Guidelines and Perspectives (Jonathan Berk, Campbell Harvey, and David Hirshleifer)
- 20 Rules for Refereeing (Marc Bellemare)
- Guidelines for Referee Reports (Elisabeth Sadoulet)
- How to Write a Good Referee Report (Tatyana Deryugina)