Create Presentation

Create a new Quarto revealjs slide deck in slides/ with the project's style guide applied.

Arguments

• $ARGUMENTS — the presentation title and optional subtitle (e.g., "Regional Disparities in GDP" or "Job Market Talk: Regional Disparities")

Steps

1. Parse the title (and subtitle, if separated by a colon) from the arguments.

1. Check slides/ for existing files to avoid name collisions. Generate a filename using the naming convention from slides/README.md (e.g., analysis-results.qmd or 01-seminar-talk.qmd).

1. Create the .qmd file in slides/ with this YAML front matter (from the style guide in slides/README.md):

yaml --- title: "<title>" subtitle: "<subtitle if provided>" author: "<from index.qmd author field, or [FILL: Author name]>" date: today format: revealjs: theme: simple slide-number: true css: | .reveal h1, .reveal h2, .reveal h3 { color: #2874A6; } .reveal strong { color: #229954; } ---

1. Pre-populate the body with a standard academic talk structure:

markdown ## Motivation

• Key question or puzzle]
• Why it matters]
• What we do about it]

## Related Literature

• Strand 1: ...]
• Strand 2: ...]
• This paper: Contribution]

## Data

• Source and sample]
• Key variables]
• Summary statistics]

## Empirical Strategy

• Identification approach]
• Model specification]

## Main Results

• Finding 1]
• Finding 2]

## Robustness

• Alternative specifications]
• Placebo tests or falsification]

## Conclusion

• Summary of findings]
• Policy implications]
• Future work]

## Thank You {.center}

Contact: email]

1. Render the slide deck to verify it compiles:

bash quarto render slides/<filename>.qmd

1. Report the file path and the command to re-render.