Tips for Econ PhD Students

Ph.D. survival guide (by Dr. Ronald T. Azuma, Intel Labs, original version 1997, last revised February 2019)

Writing Tips For Economics Research Papers (by Prof. Plamen Nikolov, Harvard, 2020)

Giving an Academic Talk (by Prof. Jonathan Shewchuk, UC Berkeley)

Choosing and pursuing unusual research topics (Prof. Niederle, Stanford, Jan 2011)

Preparing Yourself for Ph.D. Level Employment (Prof. McCarl, TAMU, Sep 2003)

AEA CSWEP Professional Development Materials for Faculty in Doctoral Programs


Software I use:

  • project management: ASANA

  • reference management: Zotero

  • note taking: OneNote

  • modeling/analytics: R, Stata, Julia, Matlab, GAMS, Mathematica, PowerSim