Lecture: How to Read the Economics Papers?

This lecture is about the basic introduction of how to read the ecomomics papers. The audience is mainly sophomore undergraduate students.

In this lecture, I first explained the necessity of reading literature for every undergraduate student and some common sense that need to be known before reading.
Then, I systematically explained the classification of article types in economic literature. Also, I pointed out the parts in an article which should pay more attention to for both theoretical and empirical papers .
Next, I introduced the methods of intensive reading and extensive reading, as well as their requirements for taking reading notes.
Finally, I took an article about Tax Salience (Chetty et al., 2009) published on the American Economic Review as an example to show how to read and taked intensive reading notes

You can find my slides here.