Resources for Economics PhD Students

(aka "How to do research and write about it?")

• "How to get started on research in economics?" Steve Pischke, A few ideas mostly for empirical work
• "Most projects fail ... and other things I've learned from (trying to do) empirical work" Amy Finkelstein
• "An unofficial guide to trying to do empirical work" Amy Finkelstein
• "The Big 5" Don Cox, How to write the introduction of a presentation (and paper)
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte, 2001, A book on how to make good graphs
• The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, Steven Pinker, 2014, A book on how to write well
  
  

  Links

  Advice for Grad Students on the Greg Mankiw Blog
  PhD Thesis Research: Where do I start? Don Davis
  "How to Build an Economic Model in your Spare Time" Hal Varian
  "Out in Five" David Romer's Rules