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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 | |