Useful Links For the Apprentice in Economics
How to Study for Economics?
How to do an honors thesis?
Interviews with professors and former students (Economaniac 2010-11 Issue)
A non-exhaustive list of questions to ask yourself about your thesis
George Akerlof's December 2003 convocation speech at Cal -
Trained to be a Hero
(what undergraduate education is about)
George Akerlof's
Advice to New Graduate Students
(what PhD education is about).
David Romer's
Golden Rules
for graduate students
Susan Athey's Advice for
Applying to Grad School in Economics.
Greg Mankiw's Advice on
Choosing a PhD or graduate program
.
US News and World Report's
Ranking of the Economics Department in the US
David Laibson's
Advice to Job Market Candidates (PhDs)
Mullainathan and Thaler's
Brief Introduction to Behavioral Economics
Martha Olney's
11 Steps to An Honors Thesis
for Cal students
Don Davis's
PhD Thesis Research - Where Do I start?
Michael Kremer's
Checklist for Writing Papers
John Cochrane's
Writing Tips for PhD Students
Greg Mankiw's
Tips on how to write well
Greg Mankiw's
Advice for Aspiring Economists
,
Why Aspiring Economists Need Math
,
Which Math Courses Should An Aspiring Economist Take?
For My Thesis or ISM Students
Read Joseph M. Williams's
Style: Toward Clarity and Grace
(then Strunk and White's
The Elements of Style
or William Zinsser's
On Writing Well
) and Edward Tufte's
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
(on graphical presentation), and Kate L. Turabian's
A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
(e.g., if you are not sure about how to do citation for newspapers etc.) See
here
,
here
, and
here
for a few presentation tips (Acknolwedgement: I downloaded them from some UC Berkeley sites sometime ago and couldn't find the original sites now).
Disclaimer: These resources are provided as a public service. Please don't ask me for more advice.