Sunday, September 14, 2025

How to Write an Economics Paper--Smart Tips from my Smart Colleague

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My most senior colleague has written some tips on how to write a research paper in economics. UConn third year paper writers, please take ca...
Friday, April 25, 2025

Four (Not Three?) Steps to Writing an Applied Microeconomics Paper

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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 ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

How to Choose a PhD Program

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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 ...
Friday, March 21, 2025

Read This if You're Using a DiD Design (and Who Isn't?): "Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner’s Guide"

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My favorite thing: Practitioner's guides to state-of-the art econometrics!  Here is one fresh of the presses for difference in differenc...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

Cool Data Alert: Cross-Gender Social Ties

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 Ever wish you could measure cross-gender social ties? Do you have a hypothesis about friendships that you would love to test with data.  Go...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

Need Inspiration for a Paper Topic?

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Do you need to write a paper for a field course? Are second/third year paper deadlines quickly approaching and every time you think of an in...
Sunday, June 23, 2024

How to Conference

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See this excellent thread with tips on how to conference  (thank you, Ben Harrell !). You can think of that as the gold standard for confere...