CeMENT: Reading Materials
Starting Your Career
"An Old Male Economist"s Advice to Young Female Economists." Dan Hamermesh. CSWEP Newsletter, Winter 2005 [link]
"The Young Economist"s Guide to Professional Etiquette", Daniel S. Hamermesh, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 6, No 1, Winter 1992, Pages 169-179. [link]
"Top 10 Tips for Starting Your Career," CSWEP Newsletter [link]
"An Overview of Networking Strategies, Joyce Jacobson, CSWEP Newsletter Summer 2004. [link]
"Top 10 List Developing and Maintaining Networks," CSWEP Newsletter [link]
"Top 10 List Giving an Effective Presentation," CSWEP Newsletter [link]
Research
What"s Your Research Agenda?, CSWEP Newsletter 2011, Articles by Ester Duflo, Raquel Fernandex and Muriel Niederle [link]
The Rhetoric of Economics, Donald N. McCloskey, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. XXI (June 1983), pp. 481-517. [link]
Other Things Equal: How To Be Equal in Economics, Deirdre N. McCloskey, Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 26, No. 2, Spring 2000. [link]
How To Build An Economic Model in Your Spare Time, Hal. R. Varian,. Essay appears in Passion and Craft: Economists at Work, University of Michigan Press, 1998. [link]
Publishing
How to get Published in an Economics Journal, CSWEP Newsletter Symposium, Spring 2011. [link]
"Top 10 Ways to Deal with Editors and Referees," CSWEP Newsletter Reprint. [link]
"Publishing in Economics Journals: Trends Young Economists (and Everyone Else) Should be Aware Of", Glenn Ellison, CSWEP Newsletter Spring 2003. [link]
How are the Mighty Fallen: Rejected Classic Articles by Leading Economists, Joshua Gans and George Shepard, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 8(1), Winter 1994, p165-79. [link]
Facts and Myths about Refereeing, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 8, No. 1, Winter 1994, Pages 153-163. [link]
Teaching
Teaching Economics in Different Environments, CSWEP Newsletter Symposium, Winter 2006. [link]
Starting Point: Economics (a new NSF project that makes innovative pedagogical resources and effective teaching practices easily accessible to economists via a web-based pedagogic portal) [link]
An Online Handbook for the Use of Contemporary Econometrics in Economic Education Research, AEA Committee on Economic Education [link]
Grants
"Top 10 Tips on How to Get Funding" CSWEP Newsletter Reprint [link]
"How To Get National Science Foundation Funding (NSF) Funding in Economics" Laura Razzolini, CSWEP Newsletter Winter 2003. [link]
"Applying for Research Grants from Liberal Arts Colleges" Lara Shore-Shepard, CSWEP Newsletter Summer 2004. [link]
Tenure & Senior Career
"Top 10 Questions to Think about before your Tenure Review," CSWEP Newsletter [link]
"Negotiating Senior Job Offers", Susan Athey, CSWEP Newsletter, Winter 2007. [link]
"Professional Etiquette for the Mature Economist", Daniel S. Hamermesh, AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 1993, 34-38. [link]
"Preparing for Ethical Challenge", Joshua Margolis, CSWEP Newsletter Winter 2003. [link]
"Top 10 Things to do to Mentor Junior Faculty," CSWEP Newsletter [link]
Work/Life Balance
Tips on Dual, Not Dueling Careers, Deborah A. Freund, Thomas J. Kniesner, CSWEP Newsletter, Spring/Summer 2001. [link]
Work and Family in Academia: Striking the Balance, CSWEP Newsletter Symposium, Spring/Summer 2007. [link]
"Discussing Parental Policies with your Dean or Department Chair," Fiona Scott Morton, CSWEP Newsletter Winter 2007. [link]
Extended Tenure Clock Policies: Theory. . . and Practice, CSWEP Newsletter Winter 2005. [link]
Where –Not When—Should You Have A Baby? Saranna Thornton, The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Chronicle Review. October 8, 2004. [link]
Women in Economics and Academia
Annual Reports on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession [link]
Women in Economics: Moving Up or Falling Off the Academic Career Ladder? Donna K. Ginther and Shulamit Kahn, Journal of Economic Perspectives – Volume 18, Number 3 – Summer 2004- Pages 193-214. [link]