Doing Applied Economics Research: Practical Skills

3.0 credits · Graduate

This course provides exposure to a wide variety of basic skills necessary for conducting high-quality research in applied economics. This includes defining a research question, primary and secondary data collection, principles of academic writing and presentation, research ethics, basic coding and data management, as well as project management. This course is meant to help students transition from coursework to the independent research they undertake starting at the end of the first year of the Ph.D. program. Some of the topics (e.g., coding) are only covered at an overview level with the expectation that those requiring a deeper knowledge will take further coursework.