This week we talk with Chase Eck. Chase, is a PhD Student at the University of Arizona. His research interests include the optimal design of transfer programs and the effects of occupational licensing in medicine. We talk with him about websites, what to include in them, what to think about, and we include a guide on Alex's website on how to make one for free.

Sebastian Tello-Trillo is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy in the University of Virginia. @dsebastiantello

Alex Hollingsworth is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Indiana University. @ajhollingsworth

Links:

Alex's guide to create a simple and a free job market website. This link will help you create a website that looks like this one. 

Chase's recommendation is to check this "command" in R to estimate fast fixed high dimensional fixed effects.

We refer a lot some advice from Sarah Jacobson on how to build your CV which can be found here.

Alex's recommendation of the week is to check Dan Quintana's blog. It has a lot of great advice.

Sebastian's advice is to check Libro.fm, is an app for reading books that sources the book from small bookstores. Try their monthly plan, very affordable. 

We also refer in this podcast to this book from Jonathan Schwabish

This week we talk with Dr. Carycruz Bueno. Carycruz is a postdoctoral research associate at Anneberg Institute at Brown University. She will help us clarify the benefits of being a post-doc and demystify thoughts on this issue. This episode will be helpful for job seekers and job providers!

Sebastian Tello-Trillo is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy in the University of Virginia.

Alex Hollingsworth is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Indiana University.

Recommendations for the week:

Book: Children of Blood and Bone

App: Libby (audio books from your local library)

Paper: How You Can Work to Increase the Presence and Improve the Experience of Black, Latinx, and Native American People in the Economics Profession

Webpage: Atlas Obscura (travel webpage)

This week we talk with Emily Nix. Emily is an Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics at the USC Marshall School of Business. We talk with Emily about her research & about lightboards, which could be a great tool for online teaching. We talk about how to make one and a number of question about using them. 

Sebastian Tello-Trillo is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy in the University of Virginia. 

Alex Hollingsworth is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Indiana University. Recommendation of the week: 

Show notes:  

In this episode, Alex and Sebastian share tips and tricks they have learned that can be helpful for people teaching for the first time. We touch on things we do before our very first lecture and some other expectations for the rest of the semester.

Sebastian Tello-Trillo is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy in the University of Virginia.

Alex Hollingsworth is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Indiana University.

Things we mentioned in this episode:

On this episode we talk about why having a workflow is important and tips on how to adopt a workflow that fits your needs. 

Alex Hollingsworth is an Assistant Professor, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University. Follow Alex @ajhollingsworth

Sebastian Tello-Trillo is an  Assistant Professor, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia. Follow Sebastian @dsebastiantello

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