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Note: All chapters contain a Summary, Suggestions for Further Reading, and Exercises | |
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What Is Research? | |
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Research Is the Creation of Knowledge | |
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How Are Arguments Evaluated? | |
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Appendix 1A: The Range of Economic Methodologies | |
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Overview of the Research Process Research in Science and Nonscience | |
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Disciplines Steps of the Research | |
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Process for Economics | |
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Appendix 2A: Writing the Research Proposal | |
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Appendix 2B: Questions for Evaluating a Research Proposal | |
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Surveying the Existing Knowledge about a Topic | |
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Why Is a Literature Survey Necessary? | |
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Where to Search: Popular Versus Scholarly Literature | |
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How to Search: Developing an Effective Search | |
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Strategy Obtaining the Resources | |
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Appendix 3A: Scholarly References and Citation Styles | |
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Using Writing as a Tool for Economic Research | |
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Writing to Learn Composition as a Creative Process | |
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The Structure of an Argument Examining an Argument | |
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Three Types of Reasoning: Deductive, Inductive, and Warrant-Based What Makes for a Persuasive Argument? | |
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Appendix 4A: Logical Fallacies | |
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Economic Writing/Writing as a Product | |
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What is Economic Writing | |
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Writing the First Draft | |
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Revising the Paper Writing Style | |
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Writing Mechanics | |
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Critical Reading or How to Understand Published Research | |
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Making Sense of Published Research | |
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Taking Research Notes and Writing Abstracts and Critical Reviews | |
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Appendix 6a: How to critically read a purely theoretical study | |
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Conceptualizing the Model | |
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What Does It Mean to Apply Theory to a Research Topic? | |
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What Is Theorizing? | |
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Narrative Reasoning Mathematical Reasoning A Commonly Used Shortcut What Makes a Good Research Hypothesis? | |
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Locating and Collecting Economic Data | |
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Data Creation | |
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The Structure of Economic Data Organizations That Collect and Publish | |
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Data Major Primary Data Collections | |
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Major Secondary Data Collections | |
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Appendix 8A: Overview of Data Sources | |
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Putting Together | |
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Your Data Set Developing a Search Strategy for Finding | |
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Your Data Data Manipulation | |
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Constructing a Data Appendix to Your Research | |
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Appendix 9a: What Are Chained-Dollars? | |
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Appendix 9b: Example of a Data | |
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Appendix 10. A First Look at Empirical Testing: Creating a Valid Research | |
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Design Key Issues of Research | |
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Design How Does One Analyze Data? | |
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Random Variation in Human Behavior | |
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Statistical Methods | |
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Simple Statistical Hypothesis | |
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Training Confounding Variable | |
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Causal Validity | |
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Appendix 10A: Table of Critical t-Statistics | |
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Introduction to Econometrics Steps in Regression Analysis | |
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Appendix 11A: Data Transformations for Regression | |
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Analyses Estimation Using Qualitative Variables | |
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Communicating the Results of Economic Research | |
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Writing the Research Report Presenting Research Orally | |
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Appendix 12A: Rubric for Grading Research Papers | |
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Glossary | |
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Reference List | |
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Index | |