Citations: A Presentation Strategy

We all need to cite previous work

Because we stand on the shoulders of giants

But you don’t need to include the full reference list in your presentation

References Joseph G. Altonji and Rebecca M. Blank, “Race and Gender in the Labor Market,” in Orley Ashenfelter and David Card, eds., Handbook of Labor Economics, vol. 3C (New York: Elsevier, 1999), pp. 3143–3259. David Autor, The Polarization of Job Opportunities in the U.S. Labor Market: Implications for Employment and Earnings (Washington, D.C.: Center for American Progress and the Hamilton Project, April 2010), Figure 1. David Autor, Frank Levy, and Richard Murnane, “The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 118, no. 4 (2003), pp. 1279–1333. David Card and John E. DiNardo, “Skill-Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality: Some Problems and Puzzles,” Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 20, no. 4 (September 2002), pp. 733–783. Robert C. Feenstra and Gordon H. Hanson, “Global Production Sharing and Rising Inequality: A Survey of Trade and Wages,” in E. Kwan Choi and James Harrigan, eds., Handbook of International Trade: Volume 1(Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2003), pp. 146–185. Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, The Race Between Education and Technology (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 2008). Robert J. Gordon and Ian Dew-Becker, “Selected Issues in the Rise of Income Inequality,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, no. 2 (Fall 2007), pp. 169–190. Gottschalk, P. and Moffitt, R. (1994) “The Growth of Earnings Instability in the U.S. Labor Market,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 217-272. Wojciech Kopczuk, Emmanuel Saez, and Jae Song, Uncovering the American Dream: Inequality and Mobility in Social Security Earnings Data Since 1937, Working Paper No. 13345 (Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2007). David S. Lee, “Wage Inequality in the United States During the 1980s: Rising Dispersion or Falling Minimum Wage?” Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 114, no. 3 (August 1999), pp. 997–1023. Thomas Lemieux, “The Changing Nature of Wage Inequality,” Journal of Population Economics, vol. 21, no. 1 (January 2008), pp. 21–48. Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, “Income Inequality in the United States, 1913–1998,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 118, no. 1 (February 2003), pp. 1–39.

It’s distracting and it clutters your slides

Instead, drop the citations and

say them aloud

Instead of this:

Try this:

Or, better yet, use images & simplify

So, instead of this:

Try this:

Previous Literature on Inequality

You can also use to follow your notes Presentation Mode

This will help your audience

on content

And be more likely to

your message

Contact

Jonathan Schwabish jschwabish@gmail.com

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