Colin P. Adams

Colin P. Adams

Economics Ph.D. Student

Resources for an Econ Ph.D. Student

1 minute read

Published:

This page compiles books, presentations, and other resources that I’ve found useful. It’s most relevant for reduced-form applied microeconomists and will continue to grow as I add new materials.

Please let me know if any links are inactive so I can update or remove them.

General Advice

Advice for PhD Students in Economics aggregated by Chris Roth and David Schindler

Doing Economics: What You Should Have Learned in Grad School-But Didn’t by Marc F. Bellemare

Economics Research Guide by Jeffery Kushkowski

A Guide for the Young Economist by William Thomson

Data

Data is Plural compiled by Jeremy Singer-Vine

Economic Datasets for Researchers compiled by Nicholas Decker

Writing Papers

Economical Writing by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

The Little Book of Research Writing by Varanya Chaubey

Presentations

“How to Give an Applied Micro Talk” by Jesse M. Shapiro

“How to Design an Award-Winning Conference Poster” by LSE Impact Blog

Coding

Data Wrangling for Economists by Michael Topper and Danny Klinenberg

Detexify by Philipp Kukl and Daniel Kirsch

R for Data Scientists by Hadley Wickham, Min Centinkaya-Rundel, and Garrett Grolemund

Job Market

econ.now by Aniket Panjwani

Job Market Thoughts and Job Market Objective Functions by Natalia Emanuel

Others

Economics Conference List by Anne Burton

Empirical Methods Trends created by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

“How to Publish Statistically Insignificant Results in Economics” by David Evans

Many Resources for Crime Economists aggregated by Jennifer Doleac

Last updated: November 13, 2025

You May Also Enjoy

Does Publication Timing Affect Citations and Circulation?

2 minute read

Published:

The NBER is amazingly consistent with the release of their working paper series. Every Monday at 12 am, the new list arrives in my inbox (I have yet to experience the epsilon probability world in which it does not, as in Rubenstein (1989)). Unlike most organizations, the NBER keeps this schedule even through the holiday season. As we continue through this period filled with food, football, and everyone’s favorite: family, papers are continually released as new working papers or publications potentially delayed by backlogs and administrative processes. This raises a natural question: are these papers’ circulation or citations being affected by their release date?

Grocery Delivery Services Affect Labor-Leisure Decisions

3 minute read

Published:

Delivery services such as DoorDash and Instacart, which have grown rapidly in the past decade especially with COVID, allow for a more precise labor-leisure tradeoff. Households no longer need to dedicate time to weekly grocery runs or interrupt what they are doing to prepare or pick up meals. These services let individuals reallocate time toward paid work or leisure activities when they value their time more than the delivery fee.

Basics of Retirement Investing

less than 1 minute read

Published:

I taught my first class, Principles of Microeconomics, in Summer 2025. In the last two sessions of the course, I included a section on the basics of investing for retirement. I am passionate about financial literacy and education, and I shared some of what I have learned with my students to give them a baseline understanding. You can download this presentation here.