Best of #econtwitter - Week of September 4, 2022 [2/3]

Sep 06, 2022

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This is part two of three.

Public goods

Claes Bäckman@ClaesBackman

It's that time of the year where new PhD students have to figure out how to do research. Luckily, the profession has put together a lot of resources to help us all become better researchers, and you can find my collected list of resources here:

sites.google.com

Claes Bäckman - Resources

1:07 PM · Aug 31, 2022

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Paul Bruno@Paul__Bruno

I started putting together a list of places where grad students in education might want to look for free, publicly-available data to work with. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… It focuses mostly on education-related data. But any/all suggestions you might have for additions are welcome.

docs.google.com

useful_data_resources

7:42 PM · Aug 29, 2022

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Pascal Michaillat@pmichaillat

There is always some slack in the economy. Sometimes there is far too much of it (Great Recession) and sometimes too little (pandemic). I am teaching a PhD course on the topic in the fall. Lecture videos & notes & readings will be publicly available: pascalmichaillat.org/t5.html

5:19 PM · Aug 30, 2022

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Dr. Stacy T. Shaw@StacyTShaw

Need help pronouncing Chinese student names in your class? The amazing @xiwen_lu has created a tool where you can look up any name and hear the most common pronunciation! oluxiwen.github.io/pronouncing-ch…

11:21 PM · Aug 29, 2022

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Tyler Ransom@tyleransom

Some slides on writing clean code that I'm including in my PhD class this fall:

raw.githack.com

Lecture 1A

8:17 PM · Aug 15, 2022

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David Schindler@DSchindlerEcon

Did you miss the European Job Market Info Session at #EEAESEM22 or do you want to have another look at the materials? You can now download the slides from sites.google.com/view/econgrada…, a public good with lots of advice assembled by @cp_roth and myself. @EEANews

sites.google.com

EconGradAdvice

1:04 PM · Aug 31, 2022

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Kelsi G. Hobbs, PhD (she/her)@KelsiGHobbs

A reminder to #EconTwitter job market candidates: I have posted examples of my 2020-2021 materials (CV, cover letters, statements, etc.) on my GitHub (github.com/kghobbs/job-ma…).

github.com

GitHub - kghobbs/job-market-materials

6:53 PM · Sep 4, 2022

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Interesting discussions

Paul Novosad@paulnovosad

Referees might support a paper if it is (i) not so innovative but very careful and highly likely to be correct; or (ii) highly innovative but not necessarily correct. This is well and good, but it's very weird that journal readers don't get any signal which of these it is.

10:46 PM · Aug 29, 2022

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Matt Clancy@mattsclancy

The website newthingsunderthesun.com launched one year ago yesterday! To celebrate, here are 10 thoughts on the extremely niche topic of writing a good living literature review intended to be read by non-specialists.

newthingsunderthesun.com

New Things Under the Sun