Jaya Wen: Ideas that helped me
Eric Zwick: The 12 Step Program for Grad School
Matthew Pearson: How to survive your first year of graduate school in economics
Chris Roth & David Schindler: Advice for Ph.D. Students
Berlin School of Economics: Researcher's guide
William Thomson: A Guide for the Young Economist (Book)
P.J. Healy: The Backwards Induction Approach to Grad School
The hidden curriculum (podcast)
Chris Blattman: Various pieces of professional advice (the advice blogposts can be found in the right panel of his webpage)
Advice for Grad Students on the Greg Mankiw Blog
Andrew Oswald: Things I would have found it useful to have been told when I was a young researcher
Jeffrey Smith: Advice on Graduate School in Economics
Jennifer Doleac resource collection
Shanjun Li collection of resources
The Econ Resources & Grad School Wiki
Tobias Klein: Links for PhD students
Alex Albright: various resources
Quan Le: collection of resources
Keith Head: collection of resources
Natalia Emanuel: collection of resources
Thriving in Economics book series: (separate books for PhD students & for those aspiring to a PhD)
Marc F. Bellemare’s Doing Economics book
Mitali Mathur: Flourishing in the First Year
Chris Blattman’s application advice
Berkeley’s advice on statements of purpose
Susan Athey: Professional advice
Miles Kimball: The complete guide to getting into an economics PhD program
Elgin et al.: So you want to go to grad school in economics?
Rachael Meager: For the ambitious, prospective Ph.D. student
Natalie Duncombe: Applying to graduate school
Natalie Duncombe: Preparing for the NSF
Advice for PhD Econ aspirants from India
Jesse Shapiro: Notes on Applying for a PhD in economics
Harvard-MIT Application Assistance and Mentoring Program (AAMP) (bottom of admission pages: https://economics.mit.edu/academic-programs/phd-program/admissions)
LSE Applicant Mentoring Program is now across multiple schools and has the following landing page:
https://sites.google.com/view/econphdamp/home
Matt Lowe: How to Generate Ideas
Matt Lowe: Idea creation in class
Steve Pischke: How to get started in research?
Don Davis: PhD Thesis Research: Where do I start?
Frank Schilbach: 5 steps towards a paper
Shiv Hastawala: Developing ideas for applied micro development papers
Some principles of Econ Theory research
Krishna Srinivasan: Is an idea worth pursuing? Checklist
Ricardo Dahis: Advice for Academic Research
Matthew Lebo: Managing Your Research Pipeline
Sam Lynch: Managing Your Research Pipeline
Jesse Shapiro: Four Steps to an Applied Micro Paper
Amy Finkelstein: An unofficial guide to trying to do empirical work
Hal Varian: How to Build an Economic Model in your Spare Time
Podcast on Behavioral Science Research and how it is made
Frank Schilbach: Resources on mental health
Scott Cunningham: Mental Health and Success
Chris Roth: Practical Advice on Meditation
Chris Roth: Meditation and the Choice of Frames
John Cawley’s guide on the US Job Market
Chicago students' Economics Job Market Advice
David Smerdon: How to survive the economics job market
David Schindler: Guide to the European Job Market
Michela Carlana: EEA Guide for European Job Market Candidates
Johannes Pfeifer: Job Market Resources
Michael Ewens: Job Market Websites
Kelsi Hobbs: Job Market Materials
AYEW: Economics Job Market Roundtable
Kim Cramer: Columbia Job Market Advice
The European Job Market for Economists Info Session 2022: Slides Part I, Slides Part III, Slides Part IV
The European Job Market for Economists Info Session 2023: Slides Part I, Slides Mental Health, Slides Part III, Slides Part IV, Slides Part V
The European Job Market for Economists Info Session 2024: Slides Part I, Slides Part III, Slides Part IV, Slides Part V
Claudia Goldin & Lawrence Katz: The Ten Most Important Rules of Writing Your Job Market Paper
John Cochrane: Writing Tips for Ph.D. Students
Plamen Nikolov: Writing Tips for Economics Research Papers
Claudia Sahm: Writing Economics Research Papers
Don Cox: The Big 5, How to write the introduction of a presentation (and paper)
Keith Head: Formula for writing an introduction
Albert Ma: On Writing Economics Papers
Eric Sims’s PhD & Writing Workshop
Ingar Haaland: Integrating ChatGPT Into Your Research
Pietro Biroli collects list of datasets for applied work and gives wise suggestions
Julian Reif: Stata Coding Guide
Gabor Bekes and Gabor Kezdi: Data Analysis
Jesse Shapiro: How to Give an Applied Micro Talk
Monika Piazzesi: Tips on how to avoid disaster in presentations
Kjetil Storesletten: The Ten Commandments for How to Give a Seminar
Rachael Meager: Public Speaking for Academic Economists
LSE: How to design an award-winning poster
https://github.com/gslab-econ/ra-manual/wiki/Introduction
https://povertyaction.github.io/guides/
Barton Willage and Anne Burton's list of Econ conferences
Apurav Bhatiya: Conferences in Political Economy
AEA CSWEP: Getting research funding
Matthew Jackson and Laura Razzolini: Getting funding from the NSF
Economic Science Association: Junior Women in Experimental Economics
AEA: Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession
AEA: Committee on the Status of LGBTQ+ Individuals in the Profession
Women in Economics: Mentoring Program
LSE: The Economics PhD Applicant Mentoring Program
Andrea Passalacqua: Guidelines to Write a Referee Reports
Berk, Harvey, Hirshleifer: Preparing a Referee Report: Guidelines and Perspectives
Hammermesh: Facts and Myths about Refereeing
Chris Roth: Constructive Refereeing
When refereeing be aware of biases against null results