How to publish applied economics papers
Take away points
- Expect rejection, and rejection is okay!
- Also expect to wait….
- Know your journal, its aim and scope, who publishes and what is published
- Craft not just good analysis, but also a good story
- Place your research within the literature, filling a gap or expanding on an outstanding question
- Sell your question, and answer
- Write with style and flow
- Dial in the elevator pitch, and turn this into your abstract and introduction
- Don’t bury the question
- Make tables and graphs readable, and meaningful
- Focus on the question and the contribution
- and look at the following……
- A good boiler plate model
- Hook, question, antecedent, value-added, road-map
- Summary, limitations, relevance to policy, future research
How to give an applied micro talk
- Clear question
- Preview the findings
- THEN, go into detail, but spare the boring details about processing data
- Present a clear and explicit model
- …”no pauses unless you really want to stress something”
- Use tables strategically
- Practice!
Anastasia C. Wilson 