Resources

Ming Li, Yu Qin, and I run a WeChat blog (公众号) called Impactful Research. This blog is bilingual in Chinese and English and aims at publishing conversations with influential economists on their impactful works, so that junior economists could benefit from such conversations and aim for impactful high-quality research. As of April 2024, our blog has more than 10,000 followers. Here is the list of articles on our blog:

1. Xiaobo Zhang (PKU)
2. Hanming Fang (Penn).
3. Zheng (Machael) Song (CUHK)
4. Ernest Liu (Princeton)
5. Yi (Daniel) Xu (Duke)
6. Chen Lian (UC Berkeley)
7. Shaoda Wang (Chicago)
8. Tianyi Wang (Toronto)
9. Panle Jia Barwick (UW-Madison)
10. Zheng (Machael) Song (CUHK)
11. Xiao Lin (Penn)
12. Shanjun Li (Cornell)
13. Ruixue Jia (UCSD)
14. David Reeb (NUS)
15. Liyan Shi (CMU)
16. Meng (Melanie) Xue (LSE)
17. Jacob Moscona (MIT)
18. Jia Xiang (Indiana)
19. Sabrina Howell (NYU)
20. Liyan Yang (Toronto)
21. Will Cong (Cornell)

Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse M. Shapiro’s code and data guide, available as a PDF or as a webpage, provides useful suggestions for protocols for empirical research projects.

GitHub is a free hosting platform for the version control tool Git. Karl Broman’s guide is a good place to start for researchers. If you are thinking about using a Graphic User Interface as opposed to a command line, you can use GitHub Desktop or SmartGit.

I used to maintain a website that collects sample Stata code fragments for creating commonly used exhibits in empirical research projects. This project can be viewed on GitHub.