Grad students with #econhistory ideas: I’ll send you feedback if you email me 1 page about the question, data (available or acquirable), research design, main concerns, and how you aim to address those. Multiple 1-pagers better. All encouraged, please spread word. #EconTwitter
Clarifications: the goal is finding ideas that "could" become your PhD job market paper and be published in “general interest” econ journals – you can do it! You may be pre-PhD... but that’s the scale/scope expected. Junior faculty can also reach out. Question-Data-Approach.
An "idea" is when you have connected items from 3 pots. Pot 1: questions of importance and interest to you. Pot 2: data you could reasonably acquire. Pot 3: empirical methods / research designs. You can iterate rather than pick one item precisely before thinking of other pots.
Also: don't self-censor on what you may think is "general interest" economics, look to answer questions that are of importance and interest to you. Be concise: 1 page per idea (not 1 page per section), not for me (only) but it encourages precision. No deadline for sending.
