(thoughtful) advice

getting through grad school is no joke, and so lots of advice for grad students gets posted on the web. a list of what i consider to be helpful and thoughtful essays/books/posts will be updated below:

how to get into top PhDs (by Rachel Meager, LSE Econ)

job visit guide (by me)

one approach to job talks (by me, with beamer materials)

job talks: a talk (by Arthur Spirling, NYU)

giving a (job) talk (by Arthur Spirling, NYU)

overcoming barriers to women's advancement (by Amy Catalinac, NYU)

a great twitter thread on cover letters (by Guy Grossman, UPenn)

how to approach grad school (by Justin Grimmer, Stanford)

a little lego-based levity if you're feeling down about grad school

I'm a social and data scientist interested in how to make credible causal inferences in ambiguous and complex settings. My substantive interests include decision making, democracy, and South Africa.

I am an Assistant Professor of quantitative research methodology at the London School of Economics, an affiliate of the LSE Data Science Institute, and a Senior Visiting Fellow in Government. I completed my PhD at MIT. From 2017 to 2021 I was an assistant professor of political science at the University of California Merced. From September 2021 through January 2022 I was a Senior Data Scientist at Deliveroo in London, UK.

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