tips for Stata LaTeX and other useful resources for economists

Author: Jan Sauermann

#StataTips

#StataTip: display a variable’s label by writing –`”`: var label VARNAME’”‘– (watch out for the right quotation marks!). This can be useful, e.g. for labelling @Stata figures
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#StataTip: to break the execution of a @Stata loop (eg when certain conditions are met), add –continue– and Stata will move to the next iteration (to stop the loop entirely, write –continue, break–)
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#LaTeXTip: create printable versions of your #beamertex slides with overlays by adding ”handout” to the document class options: \documentclass[handout]{beamer}
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#StataTip: if you want to use quotation marks in a local, embed the local in compound quotation marks:
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#LatexTip: to avoid #LaTeX breakin words over two lines, use \mbox{nolinebreakword}. To suggest hyphenation, use “\-” (e.g., “cau\-sal”)
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Tools for #LaTeX tables https://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/tables-in-latex/… by
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List of economics journals accepting short papers https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19eOOIIIRitfCOcsFbGHQseiVSg35sNyxATCIcE-G5h0/edit #econtwitter
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Because journals (still) often want their own reference style for submissions / accepted papers, we compiled a short list with journals and .bst files for formatting appropriately
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How To Write the Abstract of Your Development Economics Paper (@DaveEvansPhD) https://www.cgdev.org/blog/how-write-abstract-your-development-economics-paper
Stata, Stata – Formatting Output

Format how locals are displayed in Stata

Author: Jan Sauermann

Tools for #LaTeX tables https://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/tables-in-latex/… by