Econ RA India
Resources for economics research assistants in India
Econ RA India
Overview
- Econ RA guide - India focused. Guide written by former RAs in India.
- Econ RA guide - US focused. Guide written by close to 40 RAs in econ. US focused but still relevant. The section on “Making the most of your RAship” is excellent.
- RA applications. Advice and tips for RA job applicants compiled by the good folks at Women In Economics and Public Policy.
- RA salaries. Salaries of RAs at various institutions in India.
- RA survey - Prashansa Srivastava & Anahita Karandikar. Findings of a survey of RAs in India describing the application process and the work RAs do.
- What Economists Really Do - Oriana Bandiera. Masterful lecture about some misperceptions about economics and the kind of questions economists are working on these days. Brief 6 min video.
Academic RA Job Listings
- @econ_ra
- Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab South Asia
- Ahmedabad University
- Ashoka University
- Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University
- Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
- Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
- Indian Institute of Management Udaipur
- Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
- Indian School of Business
- Indian Statistical Institute Calcutta
- Krea University
- Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
Quasi-Academic Jobs
- Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning
- Development Data Lab
- Energy Policy Institute India
- Evidence for Policy Design
- Good Business Lab
- Precision Agriculture for Development
Non-Academic Jobs
Teaching Assistant Jobs
Resources
- Advice for Phd Students in Economics - Compilation by Chris Roth and David Schindler
- Causal Inference: The Mixtape
- DIME Wiki
- Econ RA guide
- Econometrics Academy
- Elementary principles of composition - Elements of style
- Find Economic Articles with Data
- Gentzkow and Shapiro’s RA manual
- Jennifer Doleac’s compilation of #EconTwitter threads on advice for current and aspiring academic economists
- JPAL’s research resources
- Regression and Other Stories by Andrew Gelman, Jennifer Hill, and Aki Vehtari
- Replication Wiki
- Telling stories with data
Resources - Stata
Resources - HR related
Keeping up with research
- Best of #EconTwitter
- Econimate
- Elicit - The AI Research Assistant
- Ideas For India
- Microeconomic Insights
- New Economics Papers
- SERI Working Papers
- VoxDev
Independent research (from Rice University)
- How to Get Started on Research in Economics by Steve Pischke
- How to Write a Research Paper in Economics by Dawn Powers
- Research Tips and writing Tips by Ben Jacobsen
- Writing Tips by John Cochrane
Podcasts
- AEA Research Highlights
- Capitalisn’t by Luigi Zingales and Bethany McLean
- Mixtape: The Podcast by Scott Cunningham
- Probable Causation by Jennifer Doleac
- The Hidden Curriculum by Sebastian Tello-Trillo and Alex Hollingsworth
- The New Bazaar by Cardiff Garcia
- Visible Hand by Jordi Blanes i Vidal
- VoxTalks
Conferences, workshops, seminars
- Delhi Political Economy Workshop Series
- Economics Online Seminars - AEA
- Economics Virtual Seminar Calendar - IDEAS/RePEc
- International Conference on Indian Business & Economic History
- Seminar in Applied Microeconomics - Virtual Assembly and Discussion (SAMVAAD)
- Society for Economics Research in India (SERI). Annual workshop for faculty and researchers. SERI-D Workshop for PhD students
Open courses
- AEA Continuing Education
- African History through the lens of Economics
- BREAD-IGC Virtual PhD Course, Spring 2022
- Curriculum Open-access Resources in Economics (CORE)
- Macro development
- MIT OCW Economics
- QuantEcon
- Remote Student Exchange
Communities
- Bahujan Econ
- EconAdvice
- EconSpark
- EconTwitter
- Indian Society for Ecological Economics
- International Economic Association
- Society for Economics Research in India
- Women in Econ/Policy
- Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ)
Applying to grad school
- AEA compilation: PhD application advice
- AEA: Preparing for grad school
- EconPhD.net admissions guide
- Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN)
- Guide written by former RAs in India
- Writing a diversity statement - Teevrat Garg. Written keeping in mind applications for Assistant Professors but the key ideas are transferable to PhD applications as well.
More tips
- Chris Blattman’s advice
- Paul Niehaus’ advice on “Doing research”
- Ryan Edward’s compilation on various aspects of the econ profession
Research initiatives
- Center for research on the Economics of Climate, Food , Energy and Environment
- Centre for Economic Data and Analysis
- Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in India
- EPW Research Foundation
- International Growth Center
- Women in the Economy
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