Research Project
Research Project Overview: Students will work in groups of 2 (or occasionally 3) on research projects investigating economic relationships. The output of your project should be presentation with approximately 15 slides, including all tables and figures. You will present your project proposal in class with a short 10 minutes “PechaKucha” style presentation. This means that each slide will only have an image (graphs/figures/tables are acceptable, but no words/titles). A good project will ask an interesting question and use data and regression techniques in appropriate ways to formulate an answer. Specifically, your goals are to:
1) Formulate an empirical economic question that can be addressed using data and techniques covered in this course;
2) Select appropriate data;
3) Formulate and estimate an econometric model that addresses your research question;
4) Interpret your results and discuss how potential violations of the OLS assumptions could affect your results;