The national center for Educational Statistics is great for anyone looking for any kind of education-related data: nces.ed.gov/
Archive for September, 2007
I’ve found a couple very interesting websites:
World Audit: http://www.worldaudit.com
They have compiled indexes and ranked countries on democracy, political rights, civil liberties, press freedom, rule of law, corruption, human rights, and economic freedom. Very useful for anyone doing research related to institutions.
Commerce department website, which gives the investment outlook for every nation:
http://www.stat-usa.gov/
It’s only available to public VA [...]
Now that I have a bunch of articles on my topic I have the fun task this weekend of reading them. It’ll allow me to further my understanding of the background studies and develop the research question in which I will use for this semester’s project. I’m hoping that I’ll have pretty much everything figured [...]
…. or topic, rather. After much ado about population control, I’ve decided to switch topics. I’m going to focus on the impact of gas prices on the fuel efficiency of cars. I found it very difficult to find data on population control, whereas there is much more information surrounding gas prices.
Having said that, finding specific [...]
After spending the other night searching rather aimlessly through EconLit, I finally hit 33 search results after deciding on a topic. Microcredit and women. More specifically, what are women doing with microcredit? And what are the results of such loans? (Do they increase literacy, improve health/infant mortality…etc?)
And, even better, my roommate’s family is good friends [...]
So I guess I have a topic now. I have decided to investigate whether the “contract year” (the last year of an athlete’s contract) is significant in raising their performance level and also whether it is worth spending a lot of money on a player who broke out during their contract year or if it [...]
For the past couple of weeks, I was having trouble figuring out a good research topic. While I was going through EconLit and Issues in Political Economy in the library yesterday, I finally had a moment of inspiration and decided on a research topic. I would like to research what effect female [...]
Yes, I do not have a topic yet. I have several that I can think of, but unfortunately, the only thing that really interests me are sports topics. So I was hoping maybe I could get some feedback from some of you regarding some of the topics that I am thinking of.
- Why ticket prices [...]
I found that my original topic about smoking would be very difficult to do. The information would be hard to find and I didn’t really feel like I was going to be able to present something interesting. I am going to switch my topic to population growth rates by state and the causes of them. [...]
My Research Q: Obesity and Socioeconomic Status
Published by September 16th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsI intend to research body weight increase relative to age and its correlation to one’s socioeconomic status. Although weight gain is common with age, the progression of obesity in recent decades is not completely understood. I would also like to examine other possible factors such as income, marital status, education, race, hours worked per week, [...]
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