Assignment - Project proposal

Instructions

Due date: Friday November 7th, 8:00pm

Submission: Portail des Etudes

Submission type: please submit a standalone PDF. You can also share an .html document (not a .qmd document), generated with Quarto, describing your code but that should be a .

Instructions for both the project are presented in the syllabus.

Make sure to explain what you are learning something thanks to the simulation, eg what sample size you will need to have in your actual analysis to have adequate statistical power, whether there might be econometric issues associated with the use of a given level of fixed effects is appropriate, what granularity of data you will need, etc.

The simulation will also probably help you realize that some of the ideas you initially had are likely not to work. You should mention them and discuss points that you realized while building your simulation, eg “initially I wanted to do X but I realized with the simulation that it would not work. Here is an example simulation where with X and where I cannot retrieve the true effect”.1

Footnotes

  1. X might be “using data at the municipality level” or “use that level of fixed effects” for instance.↩︎