Resources for Students in Economics & Related Fields
| Association for Mentoring & Inclusion in Economics | |
| AMIE | |
| An opportunity for PhD students to match with mentors. Next call for mentees in early 2022. | |
| Research in Color Foundation | |
| Research in Color | |
| An opportunity for students considering an economics PhD to match with mentors and complete a research project. Next call for mentees in September. | |
| C-FEM: Cross Generational Femxle Economist Mentorship Program | |
| Mentoring opportunities especially for econ students and economists of marginalized genders. | |
| Free and low cost resources for graduate students, postdocs, and early career researchers (or really anyone else) | |
| Jaclyn A. Siegel | |
Research Resources
| Library of Statistical Techniques (LOST) | |
| Nick Huntington-Klein | |
| A wiki for statistical techniques and how to implement them in various softwares. | |
| Resources for Learning R | |
| Elizabeth Pinney, @Liz_Pinney | |
| Guides, videos, tutorials, apps, and exercises for learning R. | |
| ResearchRabbit | |
| Tool for using AI for literature reviews. | |
| Diversifying Economics Seminars - Speakers List | |
| Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession | |
| How to make a regression model | |
| @nickchk on Twitter | |
| A flowchart with rules-of-thumb for what variables to include in a regression. | |
Accessibility & Inclusivity Resources
| How to Write an Image Description | |
| Alex Chen, UX Collective | |
| A how-to on writing image descriptions. | |
| Tips for Writing Image Descriptions | |
| @whykristenburns on Twitter | |
| Tips for writing image descriptions for social media | |
| Disability Language Style Guide | |
| National Center on Disability and Journalism | |
| Guidelines for writing about disability targeted at journalists but useful for all writers. | |
Teaching Resources
| Finding Economic Articles with Data and Specific Empirical Methods | |
| Sebastian Kranz | |
| App for finding articles that use a specific methodology for creating exercises or teaching examples. | |
| Gender Isn't Binary But Other Data Are! | |
| Bryan D Martin | |
| R package with data sources with examples of binary variables in datasets. | |
| Course Evaluations: Concerns with Gender and Racial Bias | |
| Rebecca J. Kreitzer | |
| A list of research on bias in course evaluations. | |
| Tips for Mentoring Students | |
| @DaveASiegel on Twitter | |
| Tips for beginning to mentor students | |
Course Materials Available Online
| Remote Student Exchange | |
| Courses currently offered for students to audit remotely. | |
| Program Evaluation for International Development | |
| Pamela Jakiela | |
| "This is the website for Professor Pamela Jakiela’s ECON 379/523 at Williams College, Program Evaluation for International Development. The course is intended for advanced undergraduates majoring in economics and masters students at the Center for Development Economics." | |
| Text as Data Class for Spring 2021 | |
| Arthur Spirling | |
| The lectures and materials from Arthur Spirling's Text as Data class at NYU DS. | |
| Applied Empirical Methods | |
| Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham | |
| Course videos and materials for PhD level applied econometrics methods. | |
| Hidden Curriculum Salons | |
| Elena Barham and Colleen Wood | |
| A series of slides from workshops outlining the hidden curriculum in graduate school, especially in political science. | |