What are the policy implications of your findings?

Major Research Paper Template
Introduction to Economic Research: What Factors Affects Employment?
The focus of the semester’s work is a major research paper. The paper will include original analytical as well as empirical analysis, drawing on a variety of sources. A complete description of the topics, format, and evaluation of the paper appears below.
A. Topics
All of the topics in this session will be about the relationship of certain individual factors and employment.
Your exact research topic will be assigned to you randomly by week 3.
B. Paper Structure
The structure of the paper should follow the outline provided here. The paper will be evaluated in part by how successfully this outline is followed. The approximate page-count for each section is provided as a guide. If the writer is more concise or the topic reasonably demands more space, then fewer or more pages may be allocated to each section without penalty.
1. Introduction (around 2 pages)
Brief introduction describing your topic and what will appear in the essay.
2. Descriptive information (around 2 pages)
This section discusses the data and variables that you are using in your paper
What data are you using?
What are the dependent and independent variables in your model?
3. Literature review (around 2 pages)
In this section, the existing research on your topic should be summarized. Possible sources of existing research include academic journal articles and books, think-tank reports, and research by government agencies.
The focus should be on more recent research.
4. Empirical and Critical Analysis (around 4 pages)
Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) data, the paper should present original empirical analysis on your topic.
Regressions can be run that aim to answer your question of interest. Possible questions that could be answered are:
What is the relationship between height (for example) and wages?
Do your findings match the results from related research?
What are the policy implications of your findings?
5. Conclusion (around 1 page)
Summarize the findings of the research paper.
C. Evaluation
The evaluation is based on both the degree of difficulty and the degree of success will be considered. Part of the ‘degree of difficulty will be the availability of other research and data on the chosen health issue – some topics have more related resources than others.
The paper will be assessed along two dimensions:
1. Completeness and clarity
A complete paper is delivered punctually and covers all of the requested points described above. There is no prescribed word count for the paper, but a complete paper will likely be between 2500 to 3500 words, not including graphs, tables, and figures.
A clear paper is free of spelling and grammar mistakes, is well-structured, and conveys written, tabular, and graphical information successfully.
2. Depth and content
A deep paper not only covers all requested topics but does so with strong analysis and economic reasoning.
D. Plagiarism
The submitted paper must be original and produced by the student. There is no tolerance in this course for plagiarism. Students should review the Faculty of Arts policies on plagiarism, available at https://artsone.arts.ubc.ca/about-arts-one/ubc-policies/ubc-plagiarism-policy/
E. Notes on style
1. Please double-space.
2. Font size 12
3. Page numbers must be used.
4. ‘Data’ is a plural word. E.g. ‘The data were analyzed.’
5. Report a sensible number of digits.
6. References should be in the style of an economics journal.
7. Papers submitted electronically should be in one document.