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Hidden Curriculum, Scott Cunningham
Tricks of the trade, Marc Bellemare
Code and Data for the Social Sciences, Gentzkow and Shapiro
Stata coding guide, Julian Reif
The Stata Guide, Asjad Naqvi
Applied empirical methods, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham (PhD course; graphs)
The Analysis of Household Surveys, Angus Deaton
Causal Inference: The Mixtape, Scott Cunningham
The Effect, Nick Huntington-Klein (see also: helpful Animated Plots)
Plausibly Exogenous Galore, Sangmin Oh
Data Science and Big Data for Economists, Grant McDermott
ML and Structural Models in Microeconometrics, Simon Quinn
GIS Analysis for Applied Economists, Melissa Dell
Causal Inference with Spatial Data: ArcGIS 10 for Economics Research, Masayuki Kudamatu
Curated measurement and survey topics and methods topics, Development Impact
Metrics Mondays, Marc Belle
Tutorials on many coding and data fundamentals at Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry
UCLA’s Stata tutorials
Stata cheat sheets
Young person’s guide to writing theory (W. Thompson)
How to build an economic model in your spare time (Hal Varian)
Executive summary of McCloskey’s “Economical Writing” (Deirdre McCloskey)
Economical writing (Deirdre McCloskey)
How to write well (Greg Mankiw)
How to Write Applied Papers in Economics (Marc Bellemare)
Writing Tips for PhD Students (John Cochrane)
Listen to advice by David Weil about research writing
Introduction formula (Keith Head)
The “Middle Bits” Formula for Applied Papers (Marc Bellemare)
The conclusion formula (Marc Bellemare)
10 Commandments for Regression Tables (Keith Head)
An Economist’s Guide to Visualizing Data (Jonathan Schwabish)
Fundamentals of Data Visualization (Claus O. Wilke)
How to give an Applied Micro Talk (Jesse Shapiro)
Formatting slides: Tips and Tricks with Beamer for Economists (Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham)
Tips on how to avoid disaster in presentations (Monika Piazzesi)
Some Pointers for Preparing Presentations (Florian Zettelmeyer)
22 Tips for Conference and Seminar Presentations (Marc Bellemare)
How to start research? (Steven Piscke)
Ph.D. Thesis research: Where do I start? (Don Davis)
How not to do social science (Marc Bellemare)
Four Steps to an Applied Micro Paper (Jesse Shapiro)
What Makes for a Successful Paper and Seminar? (Don Davis)
Doing Research (Paul Niehaus)