Author: Jan Sauermann
#LaTeXTip: create printable versions of your #beamertex slides with overlays by adding ”handout” to the document class options: \documentclass[handout]{beamer}
#StataTip: if you want to use quotation marks in a local, embed the local in compound quotation marks:
local compound=`”Bernie said “Hi” “‘
#LatexTip: to avoid #LaTeX breakin words over two lines, use \mbox{nolinebreakword}. To suggest hyphenation, use “\-” (e.g., “cau\-sal”)
Tools for #LaTeX tables https://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/tables-in-latex/… by
List of economics journals accepting short papers https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19eOOIIIRitfCOcsFbGHQseiVSg35sNyxATCIcE-G5h0/edit #econtwitter
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
How To Write the Abstract of Your Development Economics Paper (@DaveEvansPhD) https://www.cgdev.org/blog/how-write-abstract-your-development-economics-paper
Format how locals are displayed in Stata
Often I use locals to calculate something (such as the mean of a variable for a specific group) and use this in a loop (say, over groups or over years). If you, for example, want to calculate the share of observations that belong to one group (say: female==1
), you could simply write