The Hidden Curriculum

This week we talk with Anne Burton. Anne Burton is a Economics PhD student (and job market candidate for 2020!) at Cornell University. Her research is primarily concerned with the social welfare implications of risky health behaviors and crime. Before going  to Cornell, She was a Senior Research Assistant in the Fiscal Analysis section at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, D.C. from 2012-2015. She graduated from Colby College in Waterville, Maine in 2012 with a B.A. in Economics and Government.

Alex Hollingsworth - is an Assistant Professor in the O’Neill School of Public and Environment Affairs at Indiana University. Follow Alex @ajhollingsworth

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

Show Notes:

Anne's paper is on smoking ban's on alcohol and smoking consumption. She also gives a shout out to this paper by Jérôme Ada and Francesca Cornaglia. (Taxes, Cigarette Consumption, and Smoking Intensity)

Anne Burton & Barton Willage have compiled a list of conference in economics, which includes online conferences. Check it out! (Click here)

We also mention that in terms of tools for keeping connected you may want to try slack, or gather.town

Anne's recommendation of the week is to go vote!

Sebastian's recommendation of the week is to use "Control + Backspace" instead of "Backspace", this will delete full words and will make your typing experience easier! It takes some time to get used to. If you want more tips to type fast, (click here)

Alex's recommendation is the STATA command "ds" (click here). DS can store a set of variables in a local or macro. For example, you can type "ds a*" and this will create a local with all the variables that start with a.

This week Alex show us his research workflow. How he starts a project, and moves through the different software of analysis and organizing to produce a paper. Although the this episode contains audio, we have a recorded this on a video format and you can find video here. Listening to the audio may be helpful but we strongly encourage to check out the video.  

Note: The audio episode is a shortened version. The portion where we show how to pull your code into overleaf using GitHub is only in the video version. 

Co-host: Alex Hollingsworth - Assistant Professor, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Follow Alex @ajhollingsworth

Co-host: Sebastian Tello-Trillo - Assistant Professor, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Follow Sebastian @dsebastiantello

SHOW NOTES: 

Longer video episode with overleaf overview: (click here).  

GitHub repo of the code used in the episode: (click here) and associated Dropbox folder: (click here).

Alex's tip: use minimum working examples to both debug and build complex code. Example/more explanation: (click here).

Other tip: Preferred STATA Graphing Scheme Blind Schemes or `ssc install blindschemes, replace all`  then `set scheme plotplainblind` HT: Coady Wing 

Most excellent Keanu movies to watch (from video): Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Point Break  

BONUS: Grant McDermott offered a suggestion on twitter: "One suggestion, which will simplify life on the R side, is to use renv instead of manually configuring your project libs. This will automatically snapshot your project environment, create a project-specific library, add to gitignore, etc. Here’s a test repo for you to try out. Video link at the bottom too if you’re interested.  Just clone and run `renv::restore()` and it will take care of everything for you. Pretty sweet. (click here)

This week Alex and Sebastian talk with Kelli Marquardt, a PhD Student at University of Arizona. We talk with Kelli about how to approach people from outside your discipline and similar practices. Kelli is a health economist and is currently studying health disparities on the decisions that health providers make in a variety of situation.

Co-host: Alex Hollingsworth - Assistant Professor, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Follow Alex @ajhollingsworth

Co-host: Sebastian Tello-Trillo - Assistant Professor, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Follow Sebastian @dsebastiantello

Links:

Here is the datacamp link for Kelli's recommendation.  This is a mini-course to learn how to do text-analysis by analyzing prince songs.  

Academic sequitur, a service that helps you search and keep up to date with research from your topic of interest across fields, or just in your field

Alex's recommends checking this website by Jonas Kristoffer Lindeløv that teaches how most models are just linear regressions

Unlocking Us is a podcast by Brene Brown, and the episode with Harriet Lerner is particularly awesome as you learn how to form a good apology.

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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