Quiz 2
EMET8002 Semester 2 2023
Quiz 2 is worth 15% of your final mark. There are two questions and you have to
answer both of them. Question 1 is worth 8 marks and Question 2 is worth 12 marks.
You can work on these questions in your own time and you need to submit your
answers through the Turnitin link on Wattle any time before the due date.
Question 1 - Approximately 500 words [8 marks]
This question does not require you to undertake any analysis yourself. Rather, you are
being asked to critique an existing paper on “Harmonizing the yin and yang: Gender
disparities in subjective well-being after retirement in China” by Aslim et al. (2023). The
paper is available at the following link:
Answer the following questions in your own words.
1a) What are the research questions and what data is used to test those questions? Include a
discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of the data used in this paper. [2 marks]
1b) What are the main data analysis techniques used to test those research questions (from
part a)? Describe at least one of those techniques in detail. [3 marks]
1c) How could the analysis be extended using a different technique covered in the course, or
by transforming or interacting one or more of the variables? [3
• https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31780/w31780.pdf
You can download a PDF version of the paper directly
marks]
Question 2 – Approximately 600 words [12 marks]
This question requires you to undertake your own analysis and data collection on the
topic of “unemployment”. This can be for Australia or any other country of your choice.
The analysis can be either with cross-sectional, time-series or panel data.
2a) Describe and motivate your own economic research question related to “unemployment”.
State your null and alternative hypotheses. [3 marks]
2b) What data will you need to test your research question from part 2b? Identify data
sources where you can find this data and download it. Examples of data sources that are
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publicly available include the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the World Bank, the IMF, the
Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis (FRED), and others. [Note: if the data is not available at
any publicly available sources, you may need to change your research question in part 2a so
that it can be answered using data that is available] [3 marks]
2c) Describe a suitable model to test your hypothesis from part 2a (including the equations
and an explanation of each coefficient). [3 marks]
2d) Estimate the model from part 2c in Stata to test your hypothesis from part 2a. Present
your findings in a Table and interpret the sign and the statistical significance of the
coefficients. Do you find evidence to support your research hypothesis? Explain. [3 marks]
Include your Stata code (log file) in your assignment submission.