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Ideas for Economics Project

  • 06-11-2014 4:46pm
    #1
    Coybib_com
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭


    Hey guys,

    Just thought I'd rack your brains if you don't mind on an interesting Economics topic that I will be doing in a few weeks.

    Basically I have an assignment where I'll be taking a raw data set (of my choice) and analysing it and giving an economic interpretation of it.

    The topic can be pretty much anything, so I could look at the effects of medical cards on costs to health service or corporate tax rates on FDI or whatever....pretty much anything.

    Those were two ideas I was bouncing around, but I suppose my two issues would be how to get a good data set and how to interpret it through regressions etc. (the programme we will be using is stata).

    Just wondering if you guys have any ideas on a topic that would be interesting to study or suggestions on interpretation of some data sets or even some good sources of raw data that I could then use to come up with a topic to study?

    Again, this is a very open project that I could do more or less anything on.

    Thanks in advance for any input.


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  • #2
    andrew
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,368 Mod ✭✭✭✭andrew


    I recommend the 'general social survey' dataset (google it). It has lots of variables and observations, just reading through what's there should give you a few ideas.


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