Presentation Content:
Act as if this is your own paper/package you are presenting
Numerical/empirical papers
- Motivate why what you are doing is interesting
- Since this is a methodology course spend a little more time than usual on this for applied papers
- Explain your results
- What should we takeaway? What did the methods let you do?
Methodology papers
- Motivate why this method is interesting and useful
- Find an intuitive way to convey the method (e.g. a nice figure or gif like this)
- Explain in what situations we want to use this method
Packages
- Walk us through what the package does
- Explain why economists would want to use it
- Write up some simple code (maybe some RMarkdown slides like mine, or just a notebook like this) showing us how to use it