TS/Forecasting Extra Reading

This guide is primarily meant for research, but if you are interested, you can also review my guide on how to make a “Virtual TA” for your classes.

This handbook is about translating insights from experts in code and data into practical terms for empirical social scientists. We are not ourselves software engineers, database managers, or computer scientists, and we don’t presume to contribute anything to those disciplines. If this handbook accomplishes something, we hope it will be to help other social scientists realize that there are better ways to work.

This document has been produced for public service benefit. In the production of this handout, in addition to my thoughts on how to write better economics research papers, I have also relied on other writing-related suggestions or practical tips by John Cochrane, Claudia Goldin, Caroline Hoxby, Lawrence Katz, Greg Mankiw, Robert Neugeboren, and Humberto Barreto. I started this document for the benefit of undergraduate economics concentrators at Harvard College in the Economics 970 sophomore tutorial course, a course I taught between 2009 and 2014.