You should make a power point summarizing your article following the style of the Mankiw, Romer, Weil article that will be presented in class. You should then write a one page “executive summary” of the article. For resources on how to write an executive summary, please see the links here (Links to an external site.). Your executive summary should be no more than one pages long, double spaced, with one inch margins in Times New Roman 12 font. Both items should be submitted as pdf files on Canvas. The filenames should be uniqueid-sum and uniqueid-pre, so mine would be davisgk-sum and davisgk-pre. Please upload the presentation and executive summary as pdf files on our Canvas website.
The paper should address the following questions:
What is the economic question that this article attempts to answer?
What relationships do they expect to find in the data? Why do they believe these relationships exists?
What are the empirical “proxies” for the key theoretical variables? What is the data source for these variables?
Write out the regression equation that is estimated.
What did the authors find? Were the signs on the estimated coefficients as expected and were they statistically significant?
What was the answer to the economic question described in point 1 above?
What is the strongest reason to agree with the author’s conclusions? What is the strongest reason to disagree with the author’s conclusions?
Your grade will be based on your success in
The clarity of your description of the economic question and relationships
The clarity and accuracy of your description the data, regression, and results
How well followed instructions
Ease with the slides can be read and understood
The succinctness of your executive summary
