Writing Tips for Economics Research Papers

Tips on Presentation

• Presentation Rules and Suggestions for Macro Bag Lunch Seminar at the University of Munich (organized with Theo Eicher, Monika Piazzesi, Martin Schneider, and Michele Tertilt).

• Presentation Tips by Jesse Shapiro.

• Tips on How to Avoid Disaster in Presentations by Monika Piazzesi.

• Presentation Tips by Tim Kehoe (for Vigo Workshop on Dynamic Macroeconomics).

• The Job Market. Collected advice of a cohort of Chicago students for the academic job market. This is from 2000, but much of it still applies.

 

Tips on Journal Publication

• Interviews with Journal Editors by the Development Impact blog of the World Bank http://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/category/tags/journal-qas

•  How to Publish in Top Journals by Kwan Choi. Also contains some good advice about refereeing, professional etiquette etc.

 

Tips for Data Access, Code

·         How to Access Standard Data Sources by Claudia Olivetti, Dan Silverman, and Jay Hong.

·         Tips for Code and Data by Jesse Shapiro.

·        Some data recipes.

·        Replication of Berry et al. (1995).   with Matthew Gentzkow
 code and data

·        How to give an applied micro talk: Unauthoritative notes.

·        Code and data for the social sciences: A practitioner's guide. with Matthew Gentzkow
demo SVN repository (User: demo, Password: chicagobooth)
github template
ra manual

·        Summer Institute 2013: Econometric methods for high-dimensional data. with Victor Chernozhukov, Matthew Gentzkow, Christian Hansen, Matt Taddy