Resources

Resources for Economics PhD students:

• Steve Pischke (LSE) has a good collection of resources.

• EconGrad advice curated by Chris Roth and @DSchindlerEcon

• "Thriving in Economics" curated by @TDeryugina

• @RoyalEconSoc "Preparing for the Job Market" 

Econometrics:

• Development in Difference-in-Differences (DID), especially staggered DID: 

  • Problems with two-way fixed-effects event-study regressions (by Brantly Callaway and Pedro H. C. Sant’Anna)

  • The Difference-in-Differences (R package)

Fortran:

• List of optimization routines in Prof. Arnold Neumaier's website, including NLopt

• Optimization software by late Professor M. J. D. Powell

Stata:

• Stata for researchers, for students; very good introductions from SSCC@Wisc.

• Data visualization: front-and-back plots (fabplot, subsetplot)

Latex/LyX:

• Use subfig package

• Beamer to generate slides notes in pdf: setting, Pympress

• Beamer: define a single background

• Using BibTex for reference management