Published by dkauffma December 11th, 2008
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I have learned a significant amount in this class over the semester. I have improved my excel abilities through the construction of data sets, triumphed over EViews, enhanced my public speaking abilities and learned a lot about the Olympics and economic data. I feel that I have a better understanding of the process of writing an economic research paper as well as statistics and regression analysis. I believe that this knowledge will carry over and prove helpful in other classes such as econometrics and in my future career. Although I did a poor job of keeping up with all of the assignments I thoroughly enjoyed this class and look forward to the prospect of writing additional economic research papers in the future.
Published by kblodgett December 10th, 2008
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So finally, after checking and rechecking and reworking and being way too critical of my paper, I have finished. I am about to send it off and would just like to say that this class has been great. Seeing everyone’s research develop from vague ideas into well-formed presentations and papers has been amazing. I got to do more in-depth research on something that I really care about and hopefully will be able to continue in the future. The feeling of accomplishment from developing a vague idea into a well-formed presentation and paper was well worth the stress of re-familiarizing myself with eviews, asking questions where I really didn’t get a straight answer so I would have to ask them again, and still not end up understanding it clearly, trying to find Sarah’s data (and being somewhat successful…haha), and even staying up late to finish the paper on time. Enough blabbing, seeing as I still have more studying to do. I hope everyone has a good break and I will see you next semester! Good luck with the rest of your finals!
Published by twright December 10th, 2008
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I’m done, having finished the task that would never show progress, let alone show signs of completion. It almost killed me, I was hospitalized a few times, but I’ve returned stronger than ever …and I’m done.
Published by jmund7uc December 10th, 2008
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Yeah…so I am finished with my paper. It feels wierd, because I never thought this project would end. Not only that, but I didn’t feel relieved to hand it in. I liked working on the project and sort of wish I could delve further and expend the scope of the study.
About the paper, I came up with some pretty interesting and powerful results, but sometimes I wonder if my study really said anything. I mean, all I did was take disposable income and try to model a consumption function that best explained consumer behavior.
Ok, so bon voyage. (don’t laugh at me if I spelled that wrong. I don’t know French.)
Published by arhoades December 10th, 2008
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Well I augmented my empirical analysis with several additional regressions that I hope do a better job of looking at my research question. There is really little else I can do to improve it without much better data, so it is what it is.
I just finished creating an abstract, table of contents, and data appendix for the final draft. I couldn’t remember if the table of contents was required or not, but decided not to take a chance on it. Writing an abstract for my paper was a bit strange. I wanted to use “the author” but I’m the author and I’m writing it, so should it be “I”? Anyway, I dodged answering the question and wrote in such a way I didn’t use either.
I was surprised how many silly errors were in my references list. It’s a good thing I double checked my citations.
Glad to be done.
Published by jsedlak December 10th, 2008
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So I ran into a few problems that I happened to notice when writing out my conclusions and had to rework my model a little. However, once that was done some of my coefficients that were not aggreeing with my hypotheses came to agree with my hypotheses which I found to be very encouraging. Well good luck everyone with your papers and thank you Dr. Greenlaw for you time this semester! Good luck everyone with your other exams and have a good break!
Published by danielle5mac December 10th, 2008
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Congrats on getting your paper done Abby! I wish I were done! I have a few more adjustments to make to my paper today before I turn it it. I need to fix my regression so that the dummy variables are for 0 and 1 not 1 and 2. Also, I need to put it a section about my theory which may take the longest, but hopefully will not be too bad. After that and fixing a few citation errors I should be done! I hope everyone’s paper is coming along well!
Published by akoch5fs December 10th, 2008
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I just turned my paper in and I couldn’t be happier. This class was a great way to end my college career and I’m very happy to have taken it when I did. Thank you to my classmates and to Professor Greenlaw, you have felt my pain with me the entire way.
Peace and Love to All!
Abby
Published by twright December 10th, 2008
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I’m tripping with the finish line in sight at 12:15. I’ve been working on polishing my in-text citations, but one source continues to elude me. I can’t find it on any of the search engines available through the library and am currently checking fallback sites (such as the Library of Congress) for the source. The book was used as a general aid for an area of my paper, so I only need the information that should be readily available from any website that has the book. If anyone has an an idea of where to look, I’d be delighted.
Published by jsedlak December 9th, 2008
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Well, my paper editing is going pretty well…However, I’m trying to tweak my model a little by adding perceived quality ratings as an independant variable that helps determine automobile demand. However, my search over the last week for quality ratings has been unsuccessful. According to an empirical study that is part of my lit review, they said that quality ratings are avaible in the US at ConsumerReport.org. So I am making one last ditch effort here to get the quality data, but the catch is that there is a small subscription cost for this data which may not even data back to 1976 which is what I need, but I figure for $5 its worth the shot.
