ECON 7022- (MA) - Spring Term Course
The course begins with an introduction to research ethics and an overview of fundamental scientific methods, and continues by equipping students with comprehensive analytical tools required in the social sciences.
Class Hours: TBA
Class: TBA
Schedule 2025-2026*
1- Ethics in social sciences
2- An Introduction to Statistical Inference
3- Endogeneity Problem in Social Sciences
4- Qualitative methods - Survey techniques
5- Qualitative methods - Survey techniques (Chi-square test)
6- Data analysis in R
7- Visual analysis in R
8- Introduction to Textual analysis
9- Introduction to html coding
10- Webscraping - Static websites
11- Webscraping - Dynamic websites
12- Further Topics in Textual analysis
13- Discussion
* There may be changes in the schedule.
Some Reading List:
EU Commission - Ethics in Social Science and Humanities
Acharyya, R. & Bhattacharya, N. (2020). Research Methodology for Social Science. Taylor & Francis.
Bingham, A. J., Mitchell, R., & Carter, D. S. (2024). A practical guide to theoretical frameworks for social science research. Routledge.