The following books and papers have had a significant impact on me and my career:

Books

• “East of Eden” by John Steinbeck
• “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• “The Idea Factory” by Jon Gertner
• “Matchmakers” by David Evans and Richard Schmalensee
• “Poor Economics” by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
• “Factfulness” by Hans Rosling
• “A Random Walk Down Wall Street” by Burton Malkiel
• “An Introduction to Statistical Learning” by James, Witten, Hastie, and Tibshirani (link)
• “Linear Algebra and Learning from Data” by Gilbert Strang (link)
• “Intermediate Microeconomics” by Hal Varian

Papers

• “The $25,000,000,000 Eigenvector: The Linear Algebra behind Google” (link)
• “Practical Lessons from Predicting Clicks on Ads at Facebook” (link)
• “Ghost Ads: Improving the Economics of Measuring Online Ad Effectiveness” (link)
• “Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?” (link)
• “Housing Constraints and Spatial Misallocation” (link)
• “You and your research” (PDF)

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