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Collected advice on doing research
• The 10 Commandments for Regression Tables
• The 10 Commandments for Figures
•The introduction "formula" (adapted from advice John Ries and I
received from Jim Brander)
• I use Bibtex for references. It is pretty helpful but it is a pain
to conform to certain Journal styles. Here are links to bst files for AEA
journals, my own crude adaptation for REStat (only works for types "article
" and "unpublished") and for several other economics journals (old files).
• Advice for economists from Dan Hamermesh
• How to do empirical economics : a panel discussion lead by Francis
Kramarz and featuring advocacy of the "treatment effects" approach (rather
than structural methods) from Angrist and a nuanced argument for more theory
-based methods from J.M. Robin: "Science is about understanding facts and
mechanisms. Mathematics is not a science because there are no mathematical
facts. Economics is about establishing and explaining economic facts...
Economics is thus not different from physics. Physics has a huge capacity
for controlling experiments but not always. Astrophysics, for example, must
deduce mechanisms from sometimes very indirect observation. Like
astrophysics, economics is a social science with little capacity for
controlling experiments."
• How do I write a scientific paper? (Almost all of this advice
applies to economics papers as well)
• Don Davis on picking a research topic. I particularly like the
following advice Don gives: "...you would like to have your empirical work
place some intellectual capital on the line . What views of the world will
we affirm or abandon (strengthen or weaken) on the basis of your empirical
work? If you do not have an answer to this, then the empirical work will not
be very exciting." (italics added)
• Things I hate. |
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