Extension of a Research paper

Students are required to submit a 1000 word research proposal (not including references). This proposal is based on one of six research papers and will eventually be developed into a full research project as part of this course. These six papers are listed below, however students have the option of choosing their own research paper to replicate and extend. Any alternative papers must be approved by Week 4.
A proposed structure of the proposal
Introduction and overview (~100 words)
Summarising the main findings, data and method of the paper that you are replicating and other relevant literature (~400 words)
Proposed extension including research question, motivation, data and methods (~500 words)
References
Extensions
As part of the proposed extensions you need to discuss what your extension is, why this is an interesting research question, what data and methods you will use to answer this question and what you expect to find that is different or provides additional value to the original paper. There is no need to present any analysis at this stage. Examples of extensions can include:
Updating using new waves of data
Applying alternative (but justified) analytical techniques
Analysing on a different population or on a sub-population
Applying interaction effects for policy relevant analysis
Including additional or alternative dependent/independent variables.
Marking criteria for the proposal
10% for introduction and motivation
40% for summary of the original paper (including main findings, data and methods) and relevant literature
50% for extension (including the research question and research hypothesis, motivation, expected findings, data and methods)

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