Syllabus:
Office Hours: MF 2–3pm, by appointment
Course resources (h/t to Jiayue Zhang):
Structuring a paper
Slides
Resources
Four Steps to an Applied Micro Paper (Shapiro 2022)
The "Middle Bits" Formula (Bellemare 2018)
Writing Economics (Neugeboren 2014)
Modeling and identification strategies
Slides
Notes
Resources
How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time (Varian 2016)
Causal Inference: The Mixtape (Cunningham)
Code and data management
Slides
Example directory: Github repository
Paper template: Overleaf
Brown University software access:
On device LaTeX software: LyX, MiKTeX, PCTeX
Online: Overleaf Pro
Resources
Code and Data for the Social Sciences: A Practitioner's Guide (Gentzkow and Shapiro 2014)
Research ethics and IRB
Analytical writing
Slides