I’m working on a economics project and need support to help me study.
This assignment assesses your ability to understand and critically appraise appliedeconometric studies, to apply econometric methods to economic data. The assignment is due on Friday, June 4, 2021 by 18:00 via Turnitin on Canvas. A submission announcement and link will be posted on the Canvas in week 12. You may use Stata or other software for the project. Please attach the codes (or commands) and estimation outputs as the appendix at the end of your report. Do not copy and paste the estimation outputs in the main text of the report.
This project is about R3: Review, Replicate, and Revise an empirical research paper by Miguel, Satyanath, and Sergenti (2004, JPE), “Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: An Instrumental Variables Approach.” Both the paper and data can be downloaded from Canvas. Review. [30%] The first part of the project is to review the paper after you carefully read through the paper. You need to address the following (along with your comments):
◦ The research question and literature. – Why the research question is important or relevant? – What are the main views/opinions about the question in the literature? – How dose the paper contribute to the literature?
◦ The empirical methodology and models – State the empirical methods used in the paper. – What estimation methods are used? – Are the econometric assumptions reasonable or realistic?
◦ Main results 1 – Interpretation of the estimate results – How do the resultss answer the question? – Any robustness check of the model specification?
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