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Tatyana Deryugina

19 Aug, 6 tweets, 2 min read

We are crowdsourcing existing paper summaries for our social science wiki. Contribute yours and spread the word to help us get more!

All you need to do is (anonymously) paste a summary you have lying around into this form: forms.gle/hbj9RUiXfGPLky…

What kind of paper summaries might you have lying around? Ones you wrote for a referee report, for a literature review, for field exams, for a class, or for a new research project, among others.

No summary is too long or too short.

Note that Google Forms doesn’t give us any identifying info about you, so even if your referee report summary is posted verbatim, no one will be able to trace it back to you (we will clean up & post suitable summaries ourselves).

Submit as many summaries as you wish to, we want whatever you can dig up! But please do NOT submit material that you didn’t write (i.e. someone else’s summary or the paper’s abstract). forms.gle/hbj9RUiXfGPLky…

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Tatyana Deryugina

@TDeryugina

19 Aug

Some miscellaneous writing advice, especially for those writing up their JMP right now.

1. Completing a solid draft will take a lot longer than you think. Plan accordingly (i.e., spend as much of your research time writing as possible).

2. Ask your letter writers NOW when they want a polished draft for letter purposes and plan accordingly. Don't give them a half-finished (or 3/4 finished) paper; it will hurt your letter quality.

3. What SHOULD a full empirical paper consist of? Don't worry about getting every single possible robustness check and extension in there for now. The 100-page appendix will naturally appear as you make your way through the market.🤷‍♀️

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Tatyana Deryugina

@TDeryugina

8 Jan

A new blog post with some basic guidelines for how to conduct robustness analysis in quasi-experimental empirical work (+ some general tips).

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Overarching principle: think first. Do not try every possible permutation of samples/fixed effects, etc. Think about what concerns readers might have & design robustness checks to address those.

Pick your preferred regression specification/sample before you know what your results are. You are not necessarily wedded to this, but it will help you be on firm ground conceptually.

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Tatyana Deryugina

@TDeryugina

25 Mar 20

The current COVID-19 situation reminds me in many ways of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005. I've studied the latter disaster in my research, and I think we can learn a lot from it. Summary follows, full post is here: medium.com/@tatyana_57116…

Both COVID-19 and Hurricane Katrina are large external shocks that have nothing to do with overvalued housing markets, excessive leverage, or a sudden drop in consumer confidence. Let me tell you more about Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina flooded most of the city of New Orleans, making it unlivable. It killed nearly 2,000 people, most of them elderly. Hospitals, schools, and businesses closed for extended periods of time. Across the Gulf region, an estimated 230,000 jobs were suddenly lost.

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Tatyana Deryugina

@TDeryugina

13 Mar 20

Some general paper-writing advice for students who are going on the job market next year (though this advice can be applied to any paper).

(No, it's NOT too early to be writing up your JMP!)

First and foremost, writing up your research results is difficult. Thus, prepare to spend a lot of time on it and do not worry if it is going slowly. If writing seems easy to you, you are either a prose genius or doing it wrong.

If you haven’t started writing up your JMP yet, but you know what it is going to be, I suggest you start now and write a little bit every day. Starting now will give you the time and space you need to think carefully about how to structure the paper and polish your writing.

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