Sona Badalyan - Teaching

Teaching experience & materials for research and mental health

During my PhD, I taught 10 courses: 5 as a teaching assistant and 5 as an instructor. My teaching experience spans all educational levels, from Bachelor's to PhD. I primarily taught Applied and Theoretical Econometrics and Statistics.

In addition, below I share a list of research resources that help me as a young economist. I am also a strong advocate for raising awareness for the need to care for mental health during a PhD, and not only.

Teaching ("I touch the future. I teach")

Teaching instructor [evaluations available here ]

BA-level, Armenian State University of Economics:

Statistics (2022) [4.86/5]
Econometrics (2022) [4.88/5]

IT training for students with physical disabilities obtained during the 2020 military attack on civilian Indigenous Armenians in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh):

Empirical Methods in Economics (2022) [4.90/5]
Data Analysis in R (2022) [4.86/5]

PhD-level, CERGE-EI:

Complementary Statistics (2021) [non-evaluated course]

Teaching assistant

PhD-level, CERGE-EI:

Teaching Training (for A. Downing, 2021)
Microeconometrics (for N. Mittag, 2021)
Econometrics II (for V. Korovkin, 2020)
Statistics (for P. Zacchia, 2019)

MA-level, CERGE-EI:

Quantitative Methods II (for P. Vozarova, 2020)

Empirical research: coding & writing ("Science is measurement")

Writing

"Writing Tips for Economics Research Papers – 2021-2022 Edition" Nikolov
"Writing Tips for Ph. D." Students. Cochrane, J. H. (2005)
"The Ten Most Important Rules of Writing Your Job Market Paper" Goldin/Katz

Empirical methods

"Mostly Harmless Econometrics" Angrist and Pischke
"A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs", Foundations and Vol. 2, Cattaneo, Idrobo, Titiunik
"Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Regression Discontinuity Designs"
“Difference-in-Differences with Multiple Time Periods”. Callaway, Brantly, Sant’Anna
"Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner’s Guide" Baker, Callaway, Cunningham, Goodman-Bacon, Sant’Anna
"A Practical Guide to Shift-Share Instruments" Bousyak, Hull, Xaravel

Labor economics handbook

“Handbook of Labor Economics" vol 1-5

Social security data and programming

(Handling social security data): "Preparing the Sample of Integrated Labor Market Biographies (SIAB) for Scientific Analysis: A Guide" Dauth, Eppelsheimer
(Programming in R): https://www.econometrics-with-r.org/

Collection of tips for young economists:

https://www.eaye.info/advice

Mental health (“Your mental health journey is unique to you” )

(Awareness for mental health among PhD students): https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/reassessing-mental-health-crisis-among-phd-students
(Psychology by Economics Nobel Prize winner): "Thinking, Fast and Slow" Kahneman
(Intro to Adlerian psychology): "The Courage to be Disliked" Kishimi and Koga
(The first half is about being a good teacher): "The Courage to be Happy" Kishimi and Koga
(Healthy trust): "Daring to Trust" Richo
(Boundaries): "Boundary Boss" Cole
(Interpersonal skills): "The DBT Skills Workbook", Chapters 9-10, McKay, Wood, Brantley
(Interdependence): (1) "Breaking Free from Codependency" (2) "The Flight from Intimacy" Weinhold, Weinhold
(Handling lifetraps): "Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns - A Schema Therapy Self-Help and Support Book" Jacob, van Genderen, Seebauer

Henri Matisse, "Dance" (1909-1910)