Aggregators

General Resources for Macroeconomics and Financial Economics

Brendan Price with resources for PhD students

Pavel Solís with a wide array of recommended resources

Shanjun Li with resources for PhD students

Masayuki Kudamatsu with tips for economists

Alex Albright with resources focusing on R and data science

Awesome Economics with a collection of links for economists

Christine Cai with a collection of links

Guillaume Dalle with a collection, mostly in French

Chris Blattman with a great collection of personal advice

Econ Grad Advice with a frequently updated list

Mental Health

Noah Smith with a few thoughts on depression

Scott Cunningham on struggles of Econ PhD students

Scott Cunningham on hidden curriculum: mental health and success

Frank Schilbach on how to protect your mental health

Teresa Esteban-Casanelles on mental health and the job market

Learning your Production Function

Life Advice

Paul Graham on how to do great work

Sahil Bloom with the most powerful life hacks

CJ Casselli with a Personal Productivity Playbook

Ryan Holiday on 33 Things to keep in mind

David Perell on Not Killing Time

Rudyard Kipling with paternal life advice

Tyler Cowen on his production function

Pmarca guide to personal productivity

Lifehacker on how to make time slow down

Talking Points for Life on how to communicate effectively

Daily routines of a lot of people

General Pipeline

Paul Graham on Maker's schedule vs. Manager's Schedule

Greg Mankiw on his rules of thumb

R. W. Hamming on striving for greatness in all you do

Avinash Dixit on his research system

Peter Diamond on his general research strategy

David N. Weil with his pep talk on research

Paul Niehaus on doing research

Brendan Price on organizing data for economics research

Hacker Stations, a collection of sample workspaces

Alma A. Bezares Calderon with a research guide

Ricardo Dahis with advice for academic research

Lasse Pedersen on how to succeed in academia

Grad Life

Interfluidity on how higher education is right-wing

Deirdre McCloskey on how to be a good graduate student

Eric Zwick on the 12-step program for graduate school

Alex Zentefis on general PhD advice

Laura Blattner on 15 rules to help you make it through grad school

Matthew Pearson on how to survive your first year

Reddit on how to write good emails

Working on Projects

Navigating AI

Ingar Haaland on integrating ChatGPT into your research

Ethan Mollick on 15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to

Generating Ideas

Brendan Price on how to read papers

Steve Pischke on getting started on research in economics

Amy Finkelstein on how her most projects fail

Don Davis on getting started on your thesis

David Perell on avoiding cliche ideas

Ben Olken on failed projects

Funding

Crowdsourced list of small grants

Matthew O. Jackson & Laura Razzolini on NSF Funding

Alex Lang with NSF GRFP Examples

Literature Review

Semantic Scholar, AI-powered research tool

Connected Papers for exploring in a visual graph

Shyam Raman on a better lit review workflow

Elicit on AI-powered searches for papers

Perlego Books for searching for excerpts

Coding

Mitchell Peterson on clustering standard errors

Merely Useful on Research Software Engineering with Python

Malcolm Wardlaw on Stata programming

Marco Sammon on using Python for text analysis

Library of Statistical Techniques for working across languages

Walter Zhang with an intro to using the cluster at Chicago Booth

Arthur Turrell with coding for economists

Stata & R with a side-by-side comparison

Julian Reif with a Stata coding guide

Data

Michael Sinkinson on Better 13F Data

Blog with very useful insights on financial data

Dataset search enabled by Google

Search engine for finding papers using specific methods and data

Historical Data Library by Investor Amnesia

I3 Open Dataset with datasets on innovation

Find Economic Articles with Data plus automatic Stata replications

Pietro Biroli with a list of datasets

Martin Halla with a list of micro-data

Lenore Palladino with a economic and policy data dashboard

Milton Financial Market Research Institute with a Historical Data Vendor List

Project Management

Chris Goodman on project management using Notion

Jeremy Caplan with 100+ useful tools

untools.co with tools for better thinking

Jeremy Caplan with 10 tools for deep work

Red Gregory on using Notion for maximal impact

Maya Gosztyla on paper management system using Zotero and Notion

Writing & Presenting Your Work

Slides

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham on presentations in beamer

Keith Head on regression tables

Arpit Gupta with some advice on framing the work

Academic Phrasebank, a database of common phrases used in papers

Attending

Josh Kaufman on how to ask useful questions

Presenting

Adam Guren on structuring your talk

Shengwu Li on how to give an economic theory talk

Jesse Shapiro on giving an applied micro talk

Rachael Meager on public speaking for academic economists

Jonathan Shewchuk on giving an academic talk

Rochelle Terman on building an academic web presence

Anne M. Burton and Barton Willage with a list of economics conferences

Andrew Lo on home studio setup

Kjetil Storesletten with ten commandments for how to give a seminar

Rachael Meager on public speaking for academic economists

Monika Piazzesi with tips on how to avoid disaster in presentations

Manuscript

Keith Head, Don Cox, and David Evans on writing your introduction

John Cochrane on writing tips for PhD students

Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz on writing your job market paper

Michael Kremer on the checklist when writing papers

Michael Roberts on writing

Tatyana Deryugina on writing, especially the JMP

Jesse Shapiro on four steps to an applied micro paper

Plamen Nikolov on writing tips for economics research

Figures & Tables

Eric Zwick on the art of creating graphs

Jonathan A. Schwabish's AEA article, NBER lecture, and book

Claus O. Wilke on Fundamentals of Data Visualization

Nicolas P. Rougier on visualization using Python + Matplotlib

Franconeri et al. on how to visualize complex data

Marketing & Networking

Michael Ewens on job market presence and online presence

Susan Athey on networking

Curated list of minimalist websites

Online Presence

The Health Inequality Project by Team Chetty

Social Capital Atlas by Team Chetty-Jackson-Kuchler-Stroebel

Opportunity Insights by Team Chetty

Demand System Asset Pricing by Team Koijen-Yogo

Public Debt Valuation Project by Team Lustig-Van Nieuwerburgh

The Global Capital Allocation Project by Team Neiman

Open Source Asset Pricing by Team Chen-Zimmermann

Realtime Inequality by Team Blanchet-Saez-Zucman

Global Factor Data by Team Jensen-Kelly-Pedersen

Diffusion of Disruptive Technologies by Team Bloom

Economic Policy Uncertainty by Team Baker-Bloom-Davis

Firm-Level Risk by Team Hassan-Hollander-vanLent-Tahoun

Founding Patents: Young Firm Innovation by Team Ewens-Marx

Pricing the Calendar by Team Vissing-Jorgensen

Publishing

Matt Ayres on revising in response to referee comments

Tatyana Deryugina on how to be a constructive referee

Alex Edmans on learnings from 1,000 rejections

Journal Turnaround Times for Economics and Finance

Tips for Authors from Rene Stulz

Reply-to-referee template from Paolo Crosetto

Evaluating Other Work

Discussions

Chris Blattman on the art of discussing

James Choi on how to give a good paper discussion

Sample Discussions

Macro & Macro Finance

Monika Piazzesi, Daniel Greenwald, Itamar Drechsler, Urban Jermann, John Cochrane, Lawrence Schmidt, Jonathan Parker, Nicolas Crouzet, Amir Kermani, Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, Hanno Lustig, Gabriel Chodorow-Reich,Princeton MMF Reading Group, Fabrice Tourre, Eric Swanson, Wenhao Li, Robert Hall, Anton Korinek, Lars Svensson, Valentin Haddad

Financial Intermediation

Juliane Begenau, Konstantin Milbradt, Matteo Crosignani, Thomas Mertens, Kunal Sachdeva

Household / Public Finance

Arpit Gupta, Emil Verner, Christopher Palmer, Anthony DeFusco, Lorenz Kueng, Amir Kermani, Jialan Wang, Sasha Indarte, Kristoph Kleiner, Erica Jiang, Paul Willen, Jonathan Parker

Empirical Asset Pricing / Investments

Kent Daniel, Stefan Nagel, Eben Lazarus, Christian Julliard, Nancy Xu, "J" Jiacui Li, Rohit Allena, Daniele Bianchi, Jon Reuter, Vincent Bogousslavsky, Valentin Haddad, Ehsan Azarmsa

International Macro & Trade

Oleg Itskhoki, Nelson Camanho, Tarek Hassan, Dmitry Mukhin, Fabrizio Perri

Corporate Finance

Moqi Groen-Xu, Adair Morse, Shaun William Davies, Isaac Hacamo

Behavioral Finance

David Solomon

Editing

Preston McAfee on working as an editor

Others

Professional Code

Anthony Lee Zhang on social norms in US academia

Ivo Welch on some observations about the PhD Market

Daniel S. Hamermash on professional etiquette

Josh Spector with one-sentence Email tips

Lukas Mergele on bilateral meetings with senior researchers

Applying for PhD

Anthony Lee Zhang on math classes for economics/finance PhD

Econ RA Guide

Andrew Johnston on optimizing PhD placement (here), deciding where to go (here), and making the most out of grad school (here)

Mianish Jha on business PhD admission

Samantha N. Smith on business PhD admission

Chris Blattman on writing the statement of purpose

Academic Job Market

Chris Blattman on academic job market advice*

John Cawley on the academic job market

Eric Zwick on how he learned to stop worrying and love the job market

David Laibson with his job market advice

Adam Guren with his job market advice

Jonathan Parker with his job market advice

Andrew Johnston on how to dress for a job market interview

Sasha Indarte on how to organize the job market information

Manish Jha with Finance Job Market Advice based on 2020-21 experience

David Schindler on the European job market

Tatyana Deryugina with a suggested job market timeline

Alex Albright with details on job market experience

Kelsi Hobbs with an example job market package

Duarte Gonçalves on the job market package

Job market tips and interview prep by Kim Cramer and Kerry Siani

Antonio Cabrales with a general overview of job market in economics

David Schindler on interviews and flyouts

David Schindler on negotiations and offers

Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana with sample job market prep materials

Claudia Goldin and Larry Katz on negotiations and offers

Wenhao Sun on how to be the #1 pick in an R1 faculty search

PostDoc

Wei Yang Tham on on guide to postodcs in econ/management

Faculty Life

Tyler Ransom on tips for new tenure-track professors

Chris Blattman on writing recommendation letters

Brendan Nyhan on navigating academic career

Google Sheets List of University Salary Websites

Non-Academic Job Market

Scarlet Chen on her journey from Econ PhD to Tech

Rose Tan on her journey from Econ PhD to Tech

Rose Tan with a panel discussion of perspectives from economists in Tech

AEA Career Development Webinars with useful fireside chats

Matthew Hom on private sector jobs for Economics PhDs

Derek Snow with ML and Quant Finance resources

Giuseppe Paleologo with Buy-Side Quant Job Advice

Teaching Help

EconGraphs for interactive graphs and explanations

Teaching Notes

PhD Notes

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde on macro, finance, and economic history

Adrien Matray, Michael Roberts on empirical corporate finance

Itay Goldstein on theoretical corporate finance

Matthieu Gomez on macro finance

Luke Taylor on structural estimation in corporate finance

Ralph Koijen on empirical asset pricing

Francesco Franzoni on empirical asset pricing

Adriano Rampini on financial intermediation theory

Jun Pan on asset pricing and financial markets

David Backus on asset pricing with a focus on macro

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham on applied methods

Manish Jha with a summary of key finance papers

Grant McDermott on data science for economists

Chris Conlon on graduate level IO

Matt Woerman on topics in advanced econometrics

Florian Oswald on computational economics using Julia

Robert A. Miller on structural econometrics

Wenhao Li on techniques for macro finance

Annie Liang on information and learning

Victor Chernozhukov and Ivan Fernandez-Val on graduate-level econometrics

Paul Söderlind on financial econometrics

Lasse Heje Pedersen on big data asset pricing

Matteo Courthoud with a collection of causal inference resources

Master's Notes

Julien Pénasse on macro and international finance

Kevin Sheppard on MFE Financial Econometrics

Undergrad Notes

Saki Bigio on monetary and financial architectures

General Notes

Economics

IMF Back to Basics

Page One Economics

History of Economic Thought

Language, Confusion, and Models in Empirical Economics

Open-sourced macro modelsused by central baks and agencies

Literature Review

Perspectives in sustainable equity investing by Guillaume Coqueret

Machine Learning for Factor Investing by Guillaume Coqueret

Quantitative Finance

J. A. Dobelman with notes on quantitative finance and statistics

Recommendations

Newsletters

OMI Research Newsletter for latest quant research

Econ & Finance Books

Financial Times: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015

Bloomberg: 2019, 2018, 2017a, 2017b

The Economist: 2018

Andrew Lo on the best finance books

The Pequod with reviews of best fiction and non-fiction

Research Digests

NBER Digest featuring non-technical summaries

Chicago Booth Review

VOX, CEPR's Policy Portal

AEA Research Highlights

Economic Synopses

Poverty Action Lab with Policy Insights

Productivity Tools

Reddit List of useful known websites

Compilation of tasks that AI can do today

Essays

Paul Graham, American computer scientist and writer

Gwern Branwen, a pseudonymous independent researcher

Zhengdong Wang, a research engineer

Cool Stuff

Food timeline that makes food history fun

Compilation of useful twitter threads

Musical time machine that makes discovering music fun

Musclewiki for simplifying workouts

1000 best tools vetted and maintained by humans

Area vibes for finding the best places to live

Close City to search based on distance to amenities

Standard Ebooks for better formatted e-books

50 simple things for a minimalist life

Vetted for summaries of trustworthy reviews

Relationship advice from 500 years

Numbeo for comparing the cost of living

Nifty Calendar for printing out an entire year on one page

BookPecker for books summarized in 5 bullet points

Library of Short Stories for reading and downloading public short stories

The Infatuation for better food and restaurant guides

Custom computer screens for taking strategic breaks

Giga Brain for reddit-based answers

Same Energy for finding images with similar energy

How Products Are Made for details behind the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products

Muscle Wiki for your workout information

Exploding Topics to surface rapidly growing topics before they take off

Learn About by Google to study any topic you want to learn

DrawingNow for free drawing lessons

WFH NYC for best remote work spots in NYC

Light Wiki for a beautiful, lightweight Wikipedia replacement