I KINDLY REQUEST YOU ONLY ACCEPT THIS ORDER IF YOU ARE WELL VERSED IN THE DEVLOPMENT ASPECT OF ECONOMCS AND YOU ARE FIMILIAR WITH WITH INSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL TOPICS IN ECONOMICS.
This s a 2500 word written report (excluding references) in Devlopment Economics. The objective is to propose a novel piece of research in one of the following topics: Ethnic devisions; Democracy and Elections; Corruption; Conflict; Behavioural Insights in devlopment. (I will provide you with the primary sources of reference based on whatever topic you feel most comfortable in writing an Impact Evaluation proposal on). The idea is that you write about a possible project/ intervention that a governmentNGO could implement and which you could study and learn from it. In the IE proposal you do not have to do the research but you must develop a plan for research and motivate the reader about the worthiness of your research idea as if you are applying for funds to do your research.
It must contain:
– Introduction and motivation: Specify a relevant research question related to one of the topics andbe competently motivated (i.e. it must relate to other papers, policy debates, news articles etc thatmust be cited).
– Description of a proposed intervention is useful for answering the research question. You should also describe the context of the intervention (country/region) and why you chose this intervention and this place.
– Evaluation Design, incuding method (field, lab, natural experiment etc) and description of measurement (household survey, administrative data, etc) You must also show the main regression that you will run.
-Bibliography references (the references do not count for the word lmit).
I HAVE ATTACHED AN EXAMPLE OF ONE PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOU CAN FOLLOW A SIMILAR STRUCTURE AND PRODUCE A SIMILAR REPONSE OF A DIFFERENT TOPIC.
It will be graded on:
– Novelty of research question(15%): Is it relevant to the literature I will provide and policy debate?
– Correct referencing of data and sources(5%)
– Overall writing style:. Fluent and easy to read(20%)
– Quality of Motivation(20%): Motivation of the project and link to the literature and policy concerns. Is the project motivated using data, well known policy debates and literature? refer to additional papers from the ones I provide.
– Detailed description of the intervention and clear link to the research question(20%):
Enough information about the intervention regarding: who will do it? what is the morivation for it and how it links to the research question? what do we expect to learn? how feasible it is? where will itbe conducted and why? who are the beneficiaries?
-Quality of Methodology(20%)
Appropriate choice of methodology and demonstration of knowledge about it. Outline the methodology’s pros and cons. Clear description of the sample. is it clear what will be the sample of the study in terms of numbers and type (represenative, only heads of house holds, only public servants etc). Appropriate measurement variables. Outline the choice of variables that will measure the chance in behaviour. Clear explanation about which regressions will be run.
