Resources

Code & Data

I maintain a public GitHub repo with code for building and working with a database from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data.

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.

Research Practice Guides

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.

Outreach

I have been a volunteer contributor to a WeChat blog 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. Scan the QR code below to follow the blog on WeChat.