Writing and presenting economics

• Goldin and Katz on writing a job market paper
• Plamen Nikolov’s Writing tips for economics: 2023-24 edition
• Greg Mankiw’s blog on how to write well
• Deirdre McCloskey’s Economical Writing
• John Cochrane’s writing tips for PhD students (summary)
• William Thomson’s guide to writing economic theory (JEL, 1999)
• Jesse Shapiro’s How to Give an Applied Micro Talk
• Berk, Harvey and Hirshleifer on writing an effective referee report (JEP, 2017)

Making graphs

• Eric Zwick’s A Graph is Worth a Thousand Citations
• Jonathan Schwabish’s An Economist’s Guide to Visualizing Data (JEP, 2014)
• Jacques Bertin’s Semiology of Graphics
• John Tukey’s Exploratory Data Analysis (overview)
• Edward Tufte’s books on visualizing information

Website building and typesetting documents

• Pascal Michaillat’s design webpage

Best practices for data cleaning and analysis

• IPA / Poverty Action guide for RAs
• Gentzkow and Shapiro’s Code and Data for the Social Sciences (NBER Methods Lecture)

Doing research

• Jesse Shapiro’s Four Steps to an Applied Micro Paper
• Hal Varian’s How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time
• Eric Zwick’s Twelve Step Program for Grad School
• Ariel Rubinstein’s advice for “lost” graduate students (JEE, 2013)
• Bolotnyy, Basilico and Barreira on graduate student mental health (JEL, 2022)

Job market

• John Cawley’s guide to the junior academic job market
• Harvard Economics advice on approaching the job market and flyouts
• Eric Zwick’s How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Job Market

Miscellaneous

• Ariel Rubinstein’s Economic Fables
• Veritasium on luck and why being delusional is a superpower