Professionalism Workshop

This website houses all of the info for a series of workshops in the Emory Economics PhD program. The goal of this series is to prepare everyone for the transition from a student to a professional researcher, whether that be in a university setting or the private field. We’ve split the content into general areas based on where a typical student is in a given year of the program.

• 1st year workshop: just starting the program
• 2nd year workshop: transitioning from the classroom to a researcher
• 3rd year workshop: best practices in research
• 4th year workshop: preparing for the market in the coming year
• 5th year workshop: getting a job

Before you navigate to any specific workshop materials, please see our overall Etiquette page. This is material for anyone/everyone. This is stuff that seems almost silly to mention, but academia tends to attract some interesting characters for which basic niceties and professional norms are sometimes lost. We want to avoid that type of label for anyone in our program.

Workshop Info

Acknowledgements

I certainly didn’t just sit down and write all of this stuff from scratch. All of this material benefited immensely from other resources. I’ll try to list all of those resources here, although I’m sure I’ve missed something.

• Formulae for an Introduction by Keith Head, Body by Marc Bellemare, and Conclusion by Marc Bellemare
• Ten Most Important Rules of Writing Your Job Market Paper by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz
• Paper writing gone Hollywood
• Four steps to an applied micro paper
• How to give an applied micro talk
• Public speaking for academic economists by Rachel Meager
• Beamer tips for presentations by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
• The discussant’s art by Chris Blattman
• Writing referee reports, one by Marc Bellemare and another by Tatyana Deryugina and another by Elisabeth Sadoulet and another by Berk, Harvey, and Hirshleifer in the JEP
• How to be a great conference participant by Art Carden
• Stata coding guide by Julian Reif
• Code and data for the social sciences by Matthew Getzkow and Jesse Shapiro