Links for Economists

==General==
Masayuki Kudamatsu's Tips For Economists (2015, dozens of links, updated continuously)
https://sites.google.com/site/mkudamatsu/tips4economists

http://phdtips.com/



==Official advice, papers, data==

AEA website: Applying to PhD programs
https://www.aeaweb.org/resources/students/grad-prep

Survive Then Thrive: Determinants Of Success In The Economics Ph.D. Program
https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/ecinqu/v45y2007i4p864-871.html

JEP Summer 1999: five articles on the Econ PhD labor market
https://www.aeaweb.org/issues/138

Cawley's "A Guide and Advice for Economists on the US Junior Academic Job Market, 2014-2015 Edition"
(Google for most recent version)
https://www.aeaweb.org/content/file?id=869

AER PP has two articles on the job market, offers and compensation:
"American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics"
"Report of the Directory: Job Openings for Economists"

Colander, "The Making of an Economist Redux" JEP 2005
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/0895330053147976


==Books==
Colander, "The Making of an Economist" (Econ PhD)
Hillmon, "Getting a PhD in Economics" (Econ PhD)
Thomson, "A Guide for the Young Economist" (Econ PhD)
Turow, "One L" (JD)
Broughton, "Ahead of the Curve" (MBA)



==Applying to graduate school==

EconPhD.net's guide (2004)
http://econphd.econwiki.com/guide.htm

Simon Board's advice (2006) (BA Cambridge -> PhD Stanford GSB -> AP Toronto, UCLA)
http://www.econ.ucla.edu/sboard/teaching/grad_application.pdf

Rachel Meager's guide (2012) (BA Melbourne -> PhD MIT)
http://economics.com.au/?p=8458

Tony Williams (no date) (BA Florida State -> MA Johns Hopkins -> PhD Zurich)
http://econphd.econwiki.com/downloads/twcomments.pdf

Abhishek Nagaraj's advice for Business PhDs (2012) (PhD MIT Sloan -> AP Berkeley Haas)
http://web.mit.edu/nagaraj/files/phdguide.pdf

Greg Mankiw's advice (2006)
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/05/advice-for-aspiring-economists.html

Susan Athey's advice (undated)
https://faculty-gsb.stanford.edu/athey/gradadvising.html

Chris Blattman's advice (2013) (BA Waterloo -> MPA/ID Harvard -> PhD Berkeley -> AP Columbia, Yale, Chicago)
http://chrisblattman.com/about/contact/gradschool/

Jeff Smith's advice (2015) (Professor, Michigan)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~econjeff/Courses/Advice%20on%20Graduate%20School%20in%20Economics%200915.pdf

Berkeley's admissions critera (2010)
https://www.econ.berkeley.edu/grad/admissions/profile

NYU's admissions criteria and advice (2004)
http://econ.as.nyu.edu/object/econ.faq.doc

Advice for applicants to political science programs
http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/03/18/so-you-want-to-get-into-a-political-science-ph-d-program-episode-i/
http://duckofminerva.com/2012/08/applying-for-phd-in-political-science.html



==Surviving Graduate School==

Matthew Pearson, How to survive your first year of graduate school in economics (2005)
(BA UT-Knoxville -> PhD Davis)
http://law.vanderbilt.edu/phd/How_to_Survive_1st_Year.pdf

David Romer's Rules
http://www.bus.lsu.edu/hill/writing/romer.pdf

General Publication Strategies
http://www.roie.org/howg.htm

Mankiw, advice for grad students
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/05/advice-for-grad-students.html

Hisham Ford, Memoirs of a Job Market Candidate (2006)
(BA Kenyon College -> PhD Emory -> AP San Diego State)
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~hfoad/memoirs.pdf

Chicago Job Market Advice
http://web.stanford.edu/~niederle/Advice_Chicago.pdf

Johns Hopkins Job Market Advice
http://www.econ2.jhu.edu/people/ccarroll/jobmarket/Resources/

Chris Blattman's job market advice
http://chrisblattman.com/2008/11/09/academic-job-market-advice/




==Writing Resources==
Cochrane, "Writing tips for PhD students"
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/john.cochrane/research/Papers/phd_paper_writing.pdf

Cochrane, "On Writing Well"
http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2015/05/on-writing-well.html

Thomson, "The Young Person's Guide to Writing Economic Theory"
https://ideas.repec.org/a/aea/jeclit/v37y1999i1p157-183.html

40 Paragraphs
http://secondlanguage.blogspot.com/p/40-paragraphs.html

Terry Tao, "Advice on Writing Papers"
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/advice-on-writing-papers/



==Giving Presentations==
Shapiro, "How to give an applied micro talk"
http://www.brown.edu/Research/Shapiro/pdfs/applied_micro_slides.pdf

Chris House, "Fixing Terrible Economics Presentations"
https://orderstatistic.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/fixing-terrible-economics-presentations/

Jonathan Shewchuk, "Giving an Academic Talk"
http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jrs/speaking.html

Rands
http://randsinrepose.com/archives/very-important-strangers/
http://randsinrepose.com/archives/how-to-not-throw-up/


==Coding==

Gentzkow and Shapiro, "Code and Data for the Social Sciences"
http://www.brown.edu/Research/Shapiro/pdfs/CodeAndData.pdf

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