Tips on Writing Economics Papers

 General advice on writing and publishing

• Principles of  Econometrics, Fifth Edition, Chapter 1.7
• Hal Varian (1997) "How to build and economic model in your spare time"
• John Duffy "How to research and write a economics term paper"
• Dan Hammermesh "How to publish in top journals"
• Donald Davis "Ph.D. thesis research: Where do I start?"
• David Romer's Rules
• Kwan Choi "How to publish in top journals"
• Michael Kremer's writing paper checklist
• John Cochrane's writing tips for PhD students
• Peter Kennedy's Ten Commandments
• Thom Brooks publishing advice
• David Weil's (Brown Univ.) "Pep Talk"
• Writers versus authors

 Plagiarism

• What is it?

Writing resources

• William Thompson (2001) A Guide for the Young Economist, MIT Press.
• Kate L. Turabian (1996) A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations, University of Chicago Press
• Diedre N. McClosky (2000) Economical Writing, Waveland Press.
• Karim Abadir and Jan R. Magnus (2002) "Notation in Econometrics," Econometrics Journal, 6, 76-90.

Writing technology

• Microsoft Word and Mathtype
• LaTex