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[ 572GVWLDFOK21 ] KS Data and Research Designs in Economics

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3 ECTS B2 - Bachelor's programme 2. year Economics Alexander Ahammer 2 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
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Pre-requisites (*)KS Statistik für Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Original study plan Bachelor's programme Economics and Business 2024W
Objectives Students learn the fundamentals of empirical research in economics. In particular, the class teaches how to choose appropriate data, research designs, and methods to answer economic questions.
Subject Introduction to causality theory, data types and acquisition, choice of appropriate research designs for different economic questions, descriptive methods and visual data analysis, bivariate regression models.
Criteria for evaluation End-of-term exam
Methods Lectures and presentations
Language German or English
Study material Scott Cunningham (2021), Causal Inference: The Mixtape, Yale University Press.
Changing subject? No
Corresponding lecture (*)572GVWLEMEK20: KS Empirical Economics (3 ECTS)
On-site course
Maximum number of participants 200
Assignment procedure Assignment according to priority