Course teacher(s)
Mattia Nardotto (Coordinator)ECTS credits
5
Language(s) of instruction
english
Course content
The course contains the following steps:-Find a paper which results you'd like to replicate.-Read the paper and critically reflect on its shortcomings.-Write a brief and relatively selfcontained summary of the paper and give a short presentation of in class -Replicate the desired tables and figures and provide additional exercises on the data set-Write a short report of your findings.-Give a final presentation of your report.
Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)
The main goal of a replication study is to check the results of previously published papers. In many areas of science, replicability is regarded as a fundamental prerequisite for good research. In empirical economics, however, results which are not reproducible are still too often published. Nevertheless, there has been a recent counter movement and more and more journals (especially good ones) require that authors provide data and replication code that should allow their results to be reproduced.The purpose of this course is for you to replicate a previously published paper from an economics journal that interests you. Replication can be an illuminating experience. Not only is it an essential part of scientific research but it can be very rewarding in terms of learning new methods, enhancing your programming skills and providing additional insights into a specific economic topic.
Teaching methods and learning activities
Group work and group meetings.
Contribution to the teaching profile
Learn how to use econometric tools to analyze economic problems and to derive and formulate policy recommendations. Come up with interesting new economic questions and aswer them using econometric methods. Develop the ability to organize and analyze data to support policy analysis and recommendations.
The relevant learning objectives for this course are:
- LO 1.2: Identify and apply the relevant analytical tools and scientific knowledge to analyse an economic problem in depth
- LO 1.4: Collect, organise, and analyse data to critically understand the main policy challenges and to support policy analysis and recommendations
- LO 2.1: Adopt a scientific approach to data collection, research and analysis and communicate results with clear, structured, and sophisticated arguments
- LO 3.1: Apply quantitative and qualitative techniques to support data analysis using standard office and statistical software
- LO 4.1: Work and communicate effectively as part of a team in an international and multicultural environment
Other information
Contacts
mattia.nardotto@ulb.be
Campus
Solbosch
Evaluation
Method(s) of evaluation
- Other
Other
Continuous assessment, presentations, written report.
Mark calculation method (including weighting of intermediary marks)
20% for first presentation and report, 80% for final presentation and final report
Language(s) of evaluation
- english