Writing Tips for Economics Research Papers

Nikolov, Plamen (2020): Writing Tips for Economics Research Papers.

Abstract

This guide overviews several important rules for writing economics research papers. It focuses on three important pillars of economics writing: research, organization, and analysis. Economic research entails the use of state-of-the-art methods and data from any of a number of standard statistical sources or surveys. Organization entails organizing ideas coherently and persuasively, outlining the paper, and professional formatting. The final part focuses on the importance of analysis for economics writing: statistical or econometric analysis takes data and reports useful numerical summaries used to shed light on empirical relationships between important economic variables, test various economic models, or make predictions for the future.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Writing, Economics, Research Papers, Tips, Manuscripts
• Subjects: A - General Economics and Teaching > A2 - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics; A - General Economics and Teaching > A2 - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics > A20 - General; A - General Economics and Teaching > A2 - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics > A29 - Other; D - Microeconomics > D0 - General; H - Public Economics > H0 - General; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I0 - General; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J0 - General; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O10 - General; Y - Miscellaneous Categories > Y2 - Introductory Material

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