On the afternoon of July 6, 2024, the China Special Economic Zone Research Center of Shenzhen University held the 70th Theoretical Economics Doctoral Salon in the 1500 conference room of Huiwen Building. This doctoral salon invited Associate Professor Huang Wei of the National School of Development of Peking University to give a lecture on "Writing English Papers: Title, Abstract and Introduction". This doctoral salon was hosted by Professor Li Fan, deputy director of the center, and Professor Tao Yitao, director of the center, some teachers and master and doctoral students of the center participated in the event.
Huang Wei is a Peking University Boya Young Scholar, an Associate Professor of Economics (tenured) of the National School of Development of Peking University, and a candidate for the Overseas High-level National Youth Talent Program. He has worked at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Emory University in the United States. In 2016, he received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He has published more than 30 papers in top academic journals at home and abroad, such as Nature, REStat (3), AEJ-applied (2), JoLE, JDE (2), JHR (2), JEP, Economic Research (2), Management World, Economics (Quarterly) (5), etc. He is the co-editor of the international SSCI journal EoT, the deputy editor-in-chief of JEBO, CER and JAE, and the deputy editor-in-chief of Economics (Quarterly). He has won the Zhang Peigang Young Scholar Award in Development Economics, etc.
Before the start of this doctoral salon, Professor Tao Yitao, director of the center, briefly introduced the basic situation of the Theoretical Economics Doctoral Salon to Professor Huang Wei and expressed warm welcome to Professor Huang Wei.
The content of Professor Huang Wei's lecture included two parts: academic paper structure and academic writing skills and ten rules for writing JMP (Job Market Paper). In the first part, Professor Huang Wei first shared what the main framework of an empirical paper should include. Afterwards, Huang Wei focused on how to write the title, abstract, and introduction of academic papers: the title of an academic paper should be short, accurate, and eye-catching, and the title should be informative, concise, and straightforward; the abstract of an academic paper generally includes the background, research questions, methods and data, main results, and research significance, and needs to be highlighted based on the most eye-catching aspects of the paper. In the second part, Huang Wei focused on sharing the ten rules for writing JMP (Job Market Paper) given by Professors Claudia Goldin and Larry Katz.
In the interactive exchange session, teachers and students from the China Special Economic Zone Research Center of Shenzhen University had in-depth discussions with Huang Wei on paper writing and submission, the differences in the focus of Chinese and English paper titles, and what kind of research topics are meaningful. Huang Wei answered everyone's questions from the perspectives of review experience and academic paper writing experience.
The doctoral salon was rich and interesting in content, covering aspects such as the structure of academic paper writing, the key points of writing titles, abstracts and introductions, as well as the ten rules for writing JMP (Job Market Paper). It provided the center's teachers and students with an excellent summary of experience in writing good academic papers from both theoretical perspectives and practical experience, which will help the center's teachers and students write good academic papers and conduct academic research.
