Last updated on September 7, 2020
Today is the day after Labor Day in the US and Canada, which is the day the fall semester traditionally starts at the University of Minnesota.
Elsewhere in the northern hemisphere, universities have recently or soon will resume instruction, whether online or in person, which means that graduate programs in economics and related disciplines–agricultural and applied economics, business, political science, public policy, and so on–will be welcoming their new crop of graduate students.
Given the foregoing, I thought this was the ideal time to share a new working paper–a draft chapter from a forthcoming book–titled “How to Write Applied Papers in Economics.” This paper is meant to eliminate any guess-work in the paper-writing process for the new crop of graduate students as well as others.