Students in my PhD Labor course are writing papers this week. I was going to send them this for guidance but then decided I'd share it with all of you. Thank you, Jesse Shapiro for putting it together.
Confession: I'm not sure I've ever written an aspirational introduction, but I do often write aspirational abstracts.
And lastly---it's not often you see a four step process for anything. Two steps, sure. Three steps, absolutely. You rarely see four. No wonder writing papers is so tricky!
The April 15th deadline has come and gone, and so this post is a bit too late for this year's cohort. Nevertheless, I am putting a link to this JPAL article here with the hope that it will be useful for next year.
For those of you reading this with multiple offers in hand, let me first say, "Congratulations!" I know this is a stressful time, but it really is great news that multiple departments are hopeful about your promise as a future researcher. Let me also plead with you: If you are in this situation, do research the different departments as much as you can before making a decision. However, as you narrow down your decision, please decline offers as soon as possible. Please do not wait for the evening of April 15th to decline offers.
Congratulations to all of you who have recently accepted offers! We are very excited to meet you! Good luck to all of you who are now starting the process of thinking about where to apply next year.
My favorite thing: Practitioner's guides to state-of-the art econometrics!
Here is one fresh of the presses for difference in differences.
Ever wish you could measure cross-gender social ties? Do you have a hypothesis about friendships that you would love to test with data.
Good news: Data from the paper, "Cross-Gender Social Ties Around the World" (by Mike Bailey, Drew Johnston, Theresa Kuchler, Ayush Kumar, and Johannes Stroebel) is now publicly available.
Look at that beautiful variation!
