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Resources

Data

Where to find data? A document for young or new researchers on how to find data for your new empirical project.

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Things to hide

Let me also recommend joining Data is Plural, they will send you each week a list of three datasets that are less known. Check the entire database, here.

Advice to graduate students in economics from Professor Lubotsky
Great Tips for Writing an Empirical Paper from Plamen Nikolov
List of Economic Conferences and deadlines to apply. (Anne burton and Barton Willage)
Where to present crime-papers (Jennifer Doleac)
More advice on twitter organized by (Jennifer Doleac)
How to make a website using "Git" (Marisa Carlos)
Guide to Applying for PhD Programs in Econ (Torsha Chakravorty, Aishwarya Kekre, Prerna Kundu, Lakshya Narula, and Vaibhav Ojha)
EconThaki - es una organización que tiene como objetivo incrementar la diversidad en la academia en economía en Latinoamérica y el Caribe.

EconThaki tiene una guía para estudiantes de LAC sobre como comenzar tu camino hacia el doctorado.

Website created by David Schindler and Chris Roth on advice for all sorts of issues Ph.D. students may run into: https://sites.google.com/view/econgradadvice/
Guide to Postdocs in Econ/Management by Wei Yang Tham @wytham88
Guide to Predocs in Econ by Zahra Thabet
Where do I get at job as an RA? Well you can start here - Barton Willage.

Beamer: Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham posted tips on his website on How to make better Beamer Presentations.
Machine Learning: Dario Sansone has compiled a great list of articles and other reads to get started with Machine learning
Causal Inference & ML:

Matteo Courthoud has created a number of posts regarding ML and causal inference
A book on causal inference with ML: https://causalml-book.org
Another interesting set of notes: https://matheusfacure.github.io/python-causality-handbook/landing-page.html

Asjad Naqvi aslo has compiled a website on resources related to DiD you can find it here

Todoist is my preferred app for to-do list. This is a video on how I use todoist?
I use notion for organizing everything! Even doing my website
Background music & flow
Ommwriter, is a very simple app, but it is so nice to easy. The point? A distraction free interface for you to write.

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Rize app: automatically checks what you are spending time on

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What does a professor do? What’s work look like? I try to document that here: instagram.com/onlyoneacademic

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My article on the job market
Jennifer Doleac has compiled a list of threads that people have written with different advice and takes on many aspects of the job market. You can find the list of threads here.
I’ve compiled a list of links, podcast episodes, and tweet threads on the job market here. Feel free to visit those and get the info you need!