Readings & Videos

Social Science & Political Economy

• Science as a Vocation (Max Weber)

• The Sociological Imagination (C. Wright Mills)

• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson)

• The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson)

• Where is the land of opportunity? The geography of intergenerational mobility in the United States (Raj Chetty)

Academic Writing

• Ph.D. Thesis Research: Where do I Start? (Don Davis)

• The Art and Science of Scholarly Publishing (Maureen Pirog)

• An Economist’s Guide to Visualizing Data (Jonathan A. Schwabish)

Mathematics for Social Science

• Appendices to Applied Regression Analysis, Generalized Linear Models, and Related Methods (John Fox)

• Essential Mathematics for Political and Social Research (Jeff Gill)

Research Methods (Econometrics)

• The credibility revolution in empirical economics: How better research design is taking the con out of econometrics (Joshua D. Angrist & Jörn-Steffen Pischke)

• Econometric Methods for Program Evaluation (Alberto Abadie & Matias D. Cattaneo)

• Mostly harmless econometrics: An empiricist’s companion (Joshua D. Angrist & Jörn-Steffen Pischke)

• The State of Applied Econometrics: Causality and Policy Evaluation (Susan Athey & Guido W. Imbens)

• Thirty years of spatial econometrics (Luc Anselin)

Research Methods (Machine Learning)

• Machine learning methods that economists should know about (Susan Athey & Guido W. Imbens)

• Estimation and inference of heterogeneous treatment effects using random forests (Stefan Wager & Susan Athey)

• An introduction to statistical learning (Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, & Robert Tibshirani)

• The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction (Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, & Jerome Friedman)

Videos

• 3Blue1Brown - The Essence of Calculus (Course on YouTube)

• 3Blue1Brown - The Essence of Linear Algebra (Course on YouTube)

• Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems (Course on YouTube)

• Introduction to Spatial Data Science (Course on YouTube)

• CRIP CAMP: A DISABILITY REVOLUTION (Documentary on YouTube / Netflix)