S1E5 - Talking to Chase Eck about building an academic website

The Hidden Curriculum

This week we talk with Chase Eck. Chase, is a PhD Student at the University of Arizona. His research interests include the optimal design of transfer programs and the effects of occupational licensing in medicine. We talk with him about websites, what to include in them, what to think about, and we include a guide on Alex's website on how to make one for free.

Sebastian Tello-Trillo is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy in the University of Virginia. @dsebastiantello

Alex Hollingsworth is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Indiana University. @ajhollingsworth

Links:

Alex's guide to create a simple and a free job market website. This link will help you create a website that looks like this one.

Chase's recommendation is to check this "command" in R to estimate fast fixed high dimensional fixed effects.

We refer a lot some advice from Sarah Jacobson on how to build your CV which can be found here.

Alex's recommendation of the week is to check Dan Quintana's blog. It has a lot of great advice.

Sebastian's advice is to check Libro.fm, is an app for reading books that sources the book from small bookstores. Try their monthly plan, very affordable.

We also refer in this podcast to this book from Jonathan Schwabish