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The coursework, explained. The deadlines, in one place.
Interactive explainers for the papers on the Empirical Methods reading list. Calls for papers, fellowships, grants and conferences with their deadlines. Data, software and library resources for the thesis. And a forum and community for the PhD scholars of DSE.
Empirical Methods: interactive explainers
Every paper on the reading list has a step-by-step interactive explainer — sliders, simulators, quizzes and the actual tables — built by a scholar in the course. Eleven so far; new papers get one as they are assigned.
- Should bed nets be free? — Cohen & Dupas (2010), Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Who watches the clinic? — Björkman & Svensson (2009), Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Why did the nurses stop coming? — Banerjee et al. (2008), Journal of the European Economic Association
- Can aid teach a village to cooperate? — Fearon et al. (2015), American Political Science Review
- Is the 1918 pandemic over? — Almond (2006), Journal of Political Economy
- Nature’s lottery — Washington (2008), American Economic Review
- Twenty congresses — Green et al. (2023), Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics
- How much did clean water matter? — Cutler & Miller (2005), Demography
- Hoy No Circula — Davis (2008), Journal of Political Economy
- Too hot to work — Somanathan et al. (2021), Journal of Political Economy
- How do you measure a poor district? — Banerjee et al. (2004), American Economic Review (Papers & Proceedings)
Upcoming deadlines
- Recurring ISI Delhi Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development (ACEGD) Call for Papers
- Recurring UGC-NET / JRF (National Testing Agency) Scholarships & Fellowships
- Recurring ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship Scholarships & Fellowships
- Recurring Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship (USIEF) Scholarships & Fellowships
- Recurring Commonwealth Split-site PhD Scholarships (UK) Scholarships & Fellowships
- Recurring DAAD scholarships for doctoral research in Germany Scholarships & Fellowships
- Recurring IGC research grants (India programme) Grants & Travel Funding
What’s here
📄 Papers & explainers
Every paper on the coursework reading lists, with citation, link and an explainer: the question, the data, the identification strategy, the results, and why it is on the list.
📣 Opportunities
Calls for papers, conferences, summer schools, fellowships, grants, postdocs and RA positions — sorted by deadline, with closed ones kept for reference.
🧭 Resources
Indian microdata and how to get it, free causal-inference textbooks with code, library remote access, reference managers, funding portals and the job market.
📚 Coursework
Reading lists, notes, problem sets and past exams for each PhD coursework course — Empirical Methods, Quantitative Research & Methodology, the theory options and the field courses.
💬 Forums
A board for each course, plus research help (methods, data, code), opportunities, teaching and RA work, and the admin questions nobody answers officially.
👥 Community
Profiles with your programme stage and research areas, an activity feed, messages and groups — find a reading partner, a co-author or someone who has already done the paperwork.
New to the programme?
Coursework in year one, proposal within a year of finishing it, confirmation in year two, two years’ residency, six-monthly progress reports, two publications before submission, six years to submit. The PhD guide walks through the official handbook in plain language, with links to the forms and the people to ask.
Built by scholars, for the next batch.
Made an explainer for a paper? Found a call for papers? Got notes from a course? Add it — everything here is shared freely with credit to whoever made it.
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