Overview
- Presents a basic framework for thinking about craftsmanship in microeconomic research
- Reinforces the connection between theory and econometric models
- Provides instruction on how to organize analysis and empirical results into a cohesive, persuasive, and satisfying narrative
- Presents a unified and thorough discussion of techniques for blending research elements together to maximize the credibility and impact of resultant findings
Part of the book series: Springer Texts in Business and Economics (STBE)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Ways of Seeing
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Front Matter
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Ways of Doing
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Ways of Knowing
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About this book
This textbook articulates the elements of good craftsmanship in applied microeconomic research and demonstrates its effectiveness with multiple examples from economic literature. Empirical economic research is a combination of several elements: theory, econometric modelling, institutional analysis, data handling, estimation, inference, and interpretation. A large body of work demonstrates how to do many of these things correctly, but to date, there is no central resource available which articulates the essential principles involved and ties them together. In showing how these research elements can be best blended to maximize the credibility and impact of the findings that result, this book presents a basic framework for thinking about craftsmanship. This framework lays out the proper context within which the researcher should view the analysis, involving institutional factors, complementary policy instruments, and competing hypotheses that can influence or explain the phenomena being studied. It also emphasizes the interconnectedness of theory, econometric modeling, data, estimation, inference, and interpretation, arguing that good craftsmanship requires strong links between each. Once the framework has been set, the book devotes a chapter to each element of the analysis, providing robust instruction for each case. Assuming a working knowledge of econometrics, this text is aimed at graduate students and early-career academic researchers as well as empirical economists looking to improve their technique.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Darren Grant has worked as a Navy contractor, a health management program administrator, a high school teacher and coach, and an economics professor, in various towns and cities across the South. He has published applied research in leading field journals in policy analysis, health economics, the economics of education, industrial organization, public choice, behavioral economics, and labor economics, using models that run the gamut of those found in the profession: parametric and nonparametric, linear and nonlinear, reduced form and structural, and everything in-between. Much of what he has learned about doing economic research he has learned the hard way.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Methods of Economic Research
Book Subtitle: Craftsmanship and Credibility in Applied Microeconomics
Authors: Darren Grant
Series Title: Springer Texts in Business and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01734-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-01733-0Published: 05 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-01734-7Published: 25 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2192-4333
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4341
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 203
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Microeconomics, Econometrics, History of Economic Thought/Methodology