Cigarette consumption
Pick the best explanatory variables relevant to the research topic.IstuLpaper should include the following.
Why should economists care about this topic?
• Literature review - Where does your research fit into the existing literature? Use your literature review for this section.
• Data description - What data did you use? What are its strengths and limitations? Who was surveyed, when? Refer to your data description assignment, and make sure you include revisions based on the comments. • Summary statistics - a description of the observed statistical relationship between the variables of interest. This should be a revised, extended version of your data description assignment. Look at other published papers (e.g. from your literature review) to see how these summary statistics should be presented. Tables should be clear, easy to read. and include all relevant information.
• Description of the regression model to be used in the paper - This should include a discussion of the identification strategy you will use. Relate this back to your literature review.
• Preliminary regression results - These should be presented in such a way that they arc easy to read. Again. look at the tables from published papers to get ideas. This section should include a discussion of the meaning of your results. How are the coefficients interpreted? How do they change as your model specification changes?