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
Advice
- Advice for Phd Students in Economics - Compilation by Chris Roth and David Schindler
- Chris Blattman’s advice
- Jennifer Doleac’s compilation of #EconTwitter threads on advice for current and aspiring academic economists
- On Being a (Successful) Graduate Student
- Paul Niehaus’ advice on “Doing research”
- Ryan Edward’s compilation on various aspects of the econ profession
Resources
- Metrics
- General
- Stata/R
- Coding style
- 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
More resources for writing/research
- Elementary principles of composition - Elements of style
- Find Economic Articles with Data
- Replication Wiki
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
AEA’s Webcast List (2013-2023)
| Field/year | Course/Faculty | |
|---|---|---|
| Crime/2016 | The Economics of Crime/John J. Donohue, Jens Ludwig | |
| Dev macro/2014 | Economic Growth/Oded Galor, David Weil | |
| Econ history/2022 | Quantitative Approaches to Economic History/Ran Abramitzky, Leah Platt Boustan | |
| Environment/2020 | Climate Change Economics/Lint Barrage, Michael Greenstone, Gilbert E. Metcalf | |
| Finance/2017 | Behavioral Finance/Nicholas Barberis, Ulrike Malmendier | |
| Health/2015 | Health Economics/ Jonathan Gruber, Adriana Lleras-Muney, Jonathan Skinner | |
| Health/2016 | Microeconomics of Life Course Inequality/Steven Durlauf, James J. Heckman | |
| IO/2017 | Industrial Organization/Daniel Ackerberg, Aviv Nevo, Ariel Pakes | |
| IO/2021 | Industrial Organization/Steven Berry, Philip Haile | |
| Labor/2013 | Labor Economics/Jesse Rothstein, Lowell Taylor | |
| Labor/2014 | Education and the Economy/Susan Dynarski, Brian Jacob | |
| Labor/2021 | Labor and Applied Econometrics/Patrick Kline, Christopher Walters | |
| Macro/2018 | DSGE Models and the Role of Finance/Lawrence Christiano, Thomas Philippon | |
| Macro/2019 | Inequality and Innovation/Ufuk Akcigit, Stefanie Stantcheva | |
| Macro/2022 | DSGE Modeling in Macroeconomics/Larry Christiano, Martin Eichenbaum | |
| Macro/2023 | Techniques of Empirical Macroeconomics/Òscar Jordà, Karel Mertens | |
| Methods/2013 | Time Series Econometrics/Giorgio Primiceri, Frank Schorfheide | |
| Methods/2014 | Cross-Section Econometrics/Alberto Abadie, Joshua Angrist | |
| Methods/2015 | Time Series Econometrics/James H. Stock, Mark W. Watson | |
| Methods/2016 | Field Experiments/Dean Karlan, John A. List | |
| Methods/2017 | Cross-Section Econometrics/Alberto Abadie, Joshua Angrist, Christopher Walters | |
| Methods/2018 | Machine Learning and Econometrics/Susan Athey, Guido Imbens | |
| Methods/2019 | Time-Series Econometrics/James H. Stock, Mark W. Watson | |
| Methods/2020 | Mastering Mostly Harmless Econometrics/Alberto Abadie, Joshua Angrist, Christopher Walters | |
| Methods/2022 | Modern Sampling Methods: Design and Inference/Keisuke Hirano, Jack Porter | |
| Methods/2023 | Machine Learning and Big Data/Melissa Dell, Matthew Harding | |
| Micro/2018 | Matching Market Design/Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Nikhil Agarwal, Parag Pathak | |
| Micro/2021 | Markets for Innovation: Market Failures and Public Policies/Kevin Bryan, Heidi Williams | |
| Monetary/2015 | Monetary Policy/Gauti B. Eggerson, Jeff Fuhrer, Ellen McGrattan, Ricardo Reis | |
| Monetary/2020 | Monetary Policy/Gauti B. Eggertsson, Jon Steinsson | |
| Public/2013 | Public Finance/Alan Auerbach, James Poterba | |
| Trade/2019 | International Trade/Dave Donaldson, Marc Melitz |
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.
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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