ECON 513 - Research Methods and Basic Statistics

Credits: 3
Modern social sciences like economics and political science are based on rigorous empirical analysis. Based upon observations of the world, social scientists develop theories about human economic, political, and social behavior. Theories generate hypotheses. Hypotheses lead to data collection, and subsequently to rigorous empirical analysis. The results of our analyses tell social scientists whether the world “works the way we think it does,” or not. This course focuses on these processes, with a particular emphasis on the basic statistical tools social scientists use to examine economics, politics, and other social and behavioral sciences.