Resources

Here is a very incomplete list of research tips and (free) resources that I came across on the internet.

Coding

Stata and Github integration [Asjad Naqvi] 

Mata: Stata's End Game [Asjad Naqvi] 

Good Enough Practices in Scientific Computing [PLOS Computational Biology] 

A stata coding guide [Julian Reif] 

Databases

DISCERN: Duke Innovation & SCientific Enterprises Research Network 

Reliance on Science in Patenting [Marx and Fuegi] 

N-grams on 100 million scientific articles

A useful list of data resources [Sebastian Tello Trillo] 

Methods

Wrapper for estimating new DiD models in R [Kyle Butts] 

Econometrics 

Causal Inference: The Mixtape [Scott Cunningham] 

The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality [Nick Huntington-Klein] 

Probability and Statistics for Economists [Bruce Hansen] 

Econometrics [Bruce Hansen] 

A Probability Cheat Sheet 

Gary Chamberlain Lecture Notes [Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham] 

Applied Empirical Methods [Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham] 

R for Data Science [Wickham and Grolemund] 

Visualisation

Ten Guidelines for Better Tables [Jonathan Schwabish] 

Latex templates and Stata themes [Kyle Butts] 

Stata Tables in Latex [Asjad Naqvi] 

Writing

How to write a good abstract [LSE Blog]  

The Introduction Formula [Keith Head] 

The Middle Bits Formula [Marc Bellemare] 

The Conclusion Formula [Marc Bellemare] 

The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science [Kieran Healy] 

How to construct a Nature summary paragraph 

Talking

How to give an applied micro talk [Jesse Shapiro] 

How to give a good paper discussion [James Choi] 

How to be a good discussant [Dallas fed] 

Literature reviews

How to undertake a literature review [Raul Pacheco-Vega] 

Synthesizing a body of work through conceptual dumps [Raul Pacheco-Vega] 

Finding the most relevant information in a paper [Raul Pacheco-Vega] [Excel template]