Favorite Readings
Academic Writing
Ph.D. Thesis Research: Where do I Start? (Don Davis)
An Economist’s Guide to Visualizing Data (Jonathan A. Schwabish)
Econometrics & Program Evaluation
The credibility revolution in empirical economics: How better research design is taking the con out of econometrics (Joshua D. Angrist & Jörn-Steffen Pischke)
Mostly harmless econometrics: An empiricist’s companion (Joshua D. Angrist & Jörn-Steffen Pischke)
Causal Inference: The Mixtape (Scott Cunningham)
Econometric Methods for Program Evaluation (Alberto Abadie & Matias D. Cattaneo)
The State of Applied Econometrics: Causality and Policy Evaluation (Susan Athey & Guido W. Imbens)
Thirty years of spatial econometrics (Luc Anselin)
Machine Learning
Machine learning methods that economists should know about (Susan Athey & Guido W. Imbens)
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)
Favorite 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)
Social Science & Political Economy
Where is the land of opportunity? The geography of intergenerational mobility in the United States (Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline, & Emmanuel Saez)
The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy (William Julius Wilson)
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)
Power and Progress (Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson)