Writing Referee Reports
- Berk, Jonathan, Campbell R. Harvey, and David A. Hirshleifer (2017). "How to Write an Effective Referee Report and Improve the Scientific Review Process" , Journal of Economic Perspectives:31(1), 231–244.
- Berk, Jonathan, Campbell R. Harvey, and David A. Hirshleifer (2016). "Preparing a Referee Report: Guidelines and Perspectives".
- Hamermesh, Daniel S. 1992. “The Young Economist’s Guide to Professional Etiquette.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 6(1): 162–79.
- Hamermesh, Daniel S. 1994. “Facts and Myths about Refereeing.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 8(1): 153–63.
Writing Papers
- Cochrane, J. (2005). "Writing Tips for Ph. D. Students"
- Dudenhefer, P. (2009). "A Guide to Writing in Economics"
- Nikolov, P. (2013). "Writing Tips For Economcis Research papers"
- Shapiro, J. "Four Steps to an Applied Micro Paper"
- Claudia Sahm's "Advice for Job Market Candidates", Some more
Statistics and Analyses
- Markin, T.R. and Orban de Xivry, J.-J. "Ten common statistical mistakes to watch out for when writing or reviewing a manuscript"
Slides & Presentation
- Meager, R. (2017). "Public Speaking for Academic Economists"
- Shapiro, J. "How to Give an Applied Micro Talk: Unauthoritative Notes"
Editorial Suggestions
- Interview with JEEA managing editor Juuso Välimäki
- Kwan Choi's How to Publish in (Top) Journals (a bit dated, but still useful)
Resources
- AEA-RFE Resources for Economists on the Internet
- Finding papers and keeping up with research
- Google Scholar: Start here to find papers of interest for you. Once you find one, look at papers that cite that one.
- Ideas: Repository of economic papers (published and unpublished), books, software, etc.
- New Economic Papers Mailists: Subscribe to your area of interest to keep up with new working papers
- Social Science Research Network (SSRN): Find papers and subsribe to mailing lists of interest, e.g. NBER
Reading Lists & Syllabi
- Mark Koyama - The Political Economy of Religion & State
- Joseph Henrich & Richard Wrangham - Human Nature
Online Courses & Books
- Applied Population Genetics by Rodney J. Dyer
- Text Mining with R - A Tidy Approach by Julia Silge and David Robinson
Software
- Tikz Cookbook for LaTeX figures.
- Rochelle Terman's Introduction To Computational Tools And Techniques For Social Research online course. Check out her other repositories.
- SimuPop: general-purpose individual-based forward-time population genetics simulation environment
Reproducibility
- Petting zoo for reproducibility (blog reviewing useful tools)
- Creating workflows in Computational Bio
AI-tools
Editing Text
- Grammarly is a writing tool to improve your writing, helping you identify issues in your text and proposing solutions.
- Hemingway Editor is a writing tool to improve your writing style.
- Lex is an AI to help you start writing or help to put yoru ideas into words.
Coding
- ChatGPT is a useful AI for coding, improving writing, etc.
- Codex is an AI for creating code from natural language.
Literature Reviews and Related Papers
- Litmaps identify literature of interest, relevant, or related to your research.
- Inciteful helps you discover the most relevant or related literature based on papers of interest.
- Research Rabbit identify literature of interest, relevant, or related to your research.
- Connected Papers is a unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work.
Data
Country-level data socio-economic data¶
- World Bank provides all kinds of socio-economic data.
- Penn World Tables is a database with information on relative levels of income, output, input, and productivity, covering 182 countries between 1950 and 2017.
- Maddison Historical Data provides the most used historical statistics on population and GDP
- The Maddison Project Database provides information on comparative economic growth and income levels over the very long run, follow-up to Maddison.
- Comparative Historical National Accounts provides information on Gross Domestic Product, including an industry breakdown, for the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Our World in Data provides various types of data they have compiled from other sources.
- GapMinder provides various types of data they have compiled from other sources.
- Clio Infra has set up a number of interconnected databases containing worldwide data on social, economic, and institutional indicators for the past five centuries, with special attention to the past 200 years. These indicators allow research into long-term development of worldwide economic growth and inequality.
- Human Mortality Database provides detailed mortality and population data for the world for the last two centuries.
Censuses, Surveys, and other micro-level socio-economic data¶
- IPUMS: provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space.
- General Social Survey provides survey data on what Americans think and feel about such issues as national spending priorities, crime and punishment, intergroup relations, and confidence in institutions.
- European Social Survey provides survey measures on the attitudes, beliefs, and behavior patterns of diverse European populations in more than thirty nations.
- World Values Survey is an international research program devoted to the scientific and academic study of social, political, economic, religious, and cultural values of people in the world.
- UK Data Service is the UK’s largest collection of social, economic, and population data resources.
- SHRUG is The Socioeconomic High-resolution Rural-Urban Geographic Platform for India. Provides access to dozens of datasets covering India’s 500,000 villages and 8000 towns using a set of common geographic identifiers that span 25 years.
- Cetic Brazilian Microdata microdata on Brazilian households.
- Microdatos DANE Colombian microdata available at the Colombia's National Statistical Office (DANE).
- Geoportal DANE GIS data provided by Colombia's National Statistical Office (DANE).
- CEDE Colombian microdata available at Universidad de los Andes.
Conflict data
- The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) collects real-time data on the locations, dates, actors, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events around the world.
- The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) is the world’s main provider of data on organized violence and the oldest ongoing data collection project for civil war, with a history of almost 40 years.
- Global Terrorism Database is an open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world from 1970 through 2020.