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Topics: 1. The Steps of Conducting a Research: Formulating a Research Problem; Types of Research Questions; Conceptualizing a Research Design: Identifying Variables, Constructing Hypotheses, Writing a Research Proposal, Conducting a Study: Collection of Data, Structure of Model, Analyzing Data/Solving the Model, Writing a Research Report. 12. Quantitative and Qualitative Methods: Key Features of Each of the Methods, Qualitative Research Methods: Focus Group Discussion, Direct Observation, In-Depth Interviews, Quantitative Research Methods: Generation of Models, Theories and Hypotheses, Use of Statistics. 13. Defining a Research Question: Conceptualizing; Problem formulation; Feasibility of study; Literature review. 9. Surveys in Economic Research: Key Issues of Conducting a Survey, Sampling Design (probability sampling and nonprobability sampling), and Questionnaire Design. 10. Measurement: Levels of measurement; Reliability of measurement; Survey methods; Qualitative measures; Unobtrusive measures; Complex survey design and related issues; Instrumental variables. 11. Research Design: Establishing cause and effect; Randomized experiment; Quasi-experiment; Non-experiment; Matching methods; Pre-Post designs; Regression discontinuity design. 12. Data Analysis: Data preparation; Descriptive statistics; Inferential statistics; Bootstrapping; Regression toward the mean; Quantile regression; Non-parametric regression. 13. Longitudinal Research: Trend studies; Cohort studies; Panel studies; Difference-in-differences. 14. Evaluation Research: Definitions and goals; Strategies of evaluation; Types of evaluation; Evaluation questions and methods. 15. Policy Analysis: Defining the problem; Establishing evaluation criteria; Cost-effectiveness; Surveillance and monitoring of implementation; Post-implementation evaluation. 16. Methodology in Economic Research: Contemporary direction in economic methodology; Economics and ethics: Empirical microeconomics: Empirical macroeconomics. 17. Writing a Research Proposal. 18. Presenting Research Findings.

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