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      Econ 4180--Senior Seminar in Economics                  

                           syllabus ......also available on our AsULearn page   
   
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             ANNOUNCEMENTS......go to our AsULearn page for these 

  •  THE LAB (interactive video on the ethics of research)
  • Guidelines on avoiding plagiarism!!!  Quick Guide     More Complete Coverage
  • Back by popular demand!  Examples of same paper of mine, different lengths
    • ​14 page version (main text portion, I'm not counting Appendix)
    • 10 page version
    • 2 years later....final published version (different journal without tight space constraints, so actually longer)​
  • NEED A STATS REFRESHER--> check out www.statisticshowto.com   (some specific links below)
    • ​Hypothesis test  (watch short video on 1-tail and 2-tail Z-tests....same idea for a t-test)
    • Linear regression
    • Excel Regression Explained (overview of interpreting standard multiple regression output from Excel)
    • Other Youtube videos:  1-tail t-test        multiple regression (in Excel) example       Another Excel example
  • Understandable Statistics Data Sets     Stats Analysis Homework #1                                                                      Format for Homework #1 answers                Homework #1 Answers
  • Understandable Statistics Data Sets     Stats Analysis Homework #2                                                                       Format for Homework #2 answers               Homework #2 Answers  
  • Data sources (useful for possible paper topics):
  •                    Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics (FBI crime data)                   
  •                 Health data (from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control)
  •                 Global Food Security Index
  •                     World Bank (macro data on most countries for many years)
  •                  St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank (more U.S. specific macro data)
  •                  Bureau of Labor Statistics (anything "labor" you can think of)
  •                  Yahoo! finance  (historical stock price data available here)
  •                  Sports Data:     Baseball        Football        Basketball
  • HELP! I want to do a growth model (not my professor's area of expertise).         Well, I asked our macro faculty, and if you are doing a GDP growth model, you want to track down the following: 
    • GDP growth rate (find data on GDP and create growth rate variable from that if needed)
    • labor force growth rate (again, use annual labor force data and then create growth rate variable from that)
    • Investment to GDP ratio (this is a measure of capital in a country.  Some use a Foreign Investment variable for this instead).  
    • For whatever set of years for which you have data, many include the starting point GDP of each country in the regression as well.  
    • These variables above (Dep variable and 3 Independent variables) will allow you to estimate a model (several countries over several years, or several U.S. states over several years) where GDP growth is a function of labor and capital (other variables can be added to a basic growth model, like Educational Attainment, Exports/Imports, etc, but this is the basic core model). 
    • Note: if you use "per capita GDP growth", then the labor force growth rate is not necessary (ask me about it).
  • Sample Annotated Bibliography (please follow this format)
  • sample Prospectus Presentation slides​
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