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

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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.comClaes Bäckman - ResourcesBelow you will find a list of resources that are useful for being a researcher. You might call this the hidden curriculum - the things that are not usually taught in a PhD program but that are essential to conducting research. This includes material on improving writing skills, how to organize a

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.comuseful_data_resourcesdata Education,Name,Link,Description 1,Urban Institute’s Education Data Portal/Explorer,<a href=“https://educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer/”>https://educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer/</a>,School, district, and college-level data. 1,IPPSR Correlates of State Policy,<a href=“http://ippsr.m...

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

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…

Tyler Ransom @tyleransom

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

raw.githack.comLecture 1A

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.comEconGradAdviceThis site provides some resources for grad students in economics. If you have useful resources that you would like to be added to this page please reach out to the creators of this page (Chris Roth or David Schindler) Surely, we missed many great resources out there. You can add any additional

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.comGitHub - kghobbs/job-market-materialsContribute to kghobbs/job-market-materials development by creating an account on GitHub.

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.

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.comNew Things Under the Sun

Nick HK @nickchk

Announcement and invitation! A new project that aims to improve the quality of research in applied microeconomics by examining researcher choices. I am hoping to recruit up to *200 researchers* of all kinds (with pay) and hope you will join me! (Thread)

nickch-k.github.ioWelcome to the Many-Economists ProjectThis repository is a central website describing the 2022 Many Economists Project

Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD

Every academic knows that the BEST software for citation and reference management is Zotero. BUT many folks don't know how to take notes and annotate PDFs in Zotero. Here's how to get started 👇 Zotero Annotations 101: A step-by-step guide with visuals 🧵

Jason Furman @jasonfurman

Worth remembering the vicious abuse that @ProfEmilyOster & others who made this argument were subjected to. Then think about other debates like that. You're not hearing from a lot of people on some topics because they don't want to deal with it. The result is worse outcomes.

The New York Times @nytimes

Breaking News: Test results show the pandemic’s effect on U.S. students: The math and reading scores of 9-year-olds dropped steeply, erasing two decades of progress. https://t.co/m571VGe4Lc

Nick Bloom @I_Am_NickBloom

The shift to WFH is the largest shock to labor markets in decades. Pre-pandemic WFH was trending towards 5% of days by 2022. Now WFH is now stabilizing at 30%, a 6-fold jump. In America alone this is saving about 200 million hours and 6 billion miles of commuting a week.