Honours Research Project in Economics

Course content

1. 1Choosing a research questionComing
2. 2Reading the literatureComing
3. 3Framing an economic modelComing
4. 4Finding and cleaning dataComing
5. 5Choosing an empirical strategyComing
6. 6Writing a research proposalComing
7. 7Estimating and testingComing
8. 8Robustness checksComing
9. 9Interpreting resultsComing
10. 10Writing the paperComing
11. 11Presenting economic researchComing
12. 12Final paper and reflectionComing

Requirements

• ECON-311 Econometrics I
• ECON-301 Intermediate Microeconomics II

Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.

Description

Plan, carry out and present an original piece of applied economic research.

Part of the Arts & Social Sciences stream, typically taken in year 4.