You don't need to include all of your citations in your presentation. Instead, try to use images and simplify your slides. Remember, not everything you say needs to go up on the screen. (All images in his presentation are reserved by the author and should not be used without explicit permission).

2. We all need to
cite previous work

3. Because
we stand
on the
shoulders
of giants

4. 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.
But you don’t
need to include
the full reference
list in your
presentation
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.

5. It’s distracting and
it clutters your slides

6. Instead, drop
the citations and
say them aloud

7. Instead of this:

8. Try this:

9. Or, better yet,
use images & simplify

10. So, instead of this:

11. Try this:
Previous Literature
on Inequality

12. You can also use
Presentation Mode
to follow your notes

13. This will help your
audience
on content

14. And be more
likely to
your
message

15. Contact
Jonathan Schwabish
jschwabish@gmail.com
@jschwabish