Writing Tips for Economics Research Papers

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Writing Tips for Economics Research Papers

Nikolov, Plamen

State University of York (at Binghamton), Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, IZA Institute of Labor Economics

31 July 2020

Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/105088/

MPRA Paper No. 105088, posted 07 Jan 2021 08:51 UTC

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