Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Characteristics of a Top Paper

From Prof. Nick Bloom's Labor Economics syllabus (Winter 2015):

In my view successful papers need to do at least two of the following three things: (1) Have excellent motivation (that is answer an important question – a good test of this is would a paper, say the New York Times, find the results interesting enough to write up); (2) Have excellent measurement (often using a new dataset, sometimes assembled by the author – this would be new data, rather than say the 1000th paper using Compustat or the CPS); and (3) Have excellent identification (showing clear causation, often with a natural or field experiment).

Thursday, January 1, 2015

How to Write Abstracts

I especially like the google scholar advice!

How to Write Abstracts

Happy New Year!

Sometimes, I find (or think of) interesting pieces of advice on how to do economics. The problem is that I forget about this stuff, and I don't have a good place place to store it so that I can remind myself. My new idea for the new year: I will store my ideas and discoveries on the world wide web! Welcome and enjoy!