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CHAPTER 19
TEACHING NOTES
Students should read this chapter if you have assigned a term paper. I used to allow students to
choose their own topics, but this is difficult in a first-semester course, and places a heavy burden
on instructors or teaching assistants, or both. A more manageable possibility is to assign a
common topic and provide a data set – with several weeks left in the term. When I have done
on) affects student performance.
I leave the specific econometric analysis up to the students, and they are to craft about a 10-page
paper on their own. This gives them practice writing the results in a way that is easy-to-read, and