Research Design Course
Meeting 2
Schedule for today
- Two brief presentations
- Discussion in groups of three
- 15 minutes per session
- Match with different participants in each session
- Roundtable discussion on your proposition
- Suggestions for the next one-pager
What We See and What We Write
- Inferring from specific to general
- Is it your objective?
- Descriptive or causal?
- Reflect on your writing (and your audience)
- If you plan to generalise, think about:
- local effects (heterogeneity)
- measurement problems
- meaning (context and time)
- Generalisation and external validity
- Empirical and theoretical contribution
Types of propositions in a nutshell
Example
