discuss the primary results of the paper and how these results could be applied

Final Project Overview
Your Final Project will consist of two
parts. The first part will involve critiquing research that has been performed
by others. You will need to critically evaluate the researcher’s work by
identifying strengths, weaknesses, areas to improve, and possible extensions of
the research.
Card, D., Krueger, A.B. (1994). Minimum
wages and employment: a case study of the fast-food industry in New Jersey and
Pennsylvania. American Economic Review, 84(4), 772-93.
Once you have read your article, write a
critique of the article. In your critique, discuss the following:
Research methods used
Why the authors selected the methods
What other methods could have been used
Why the other methods would have been
applicable
In addition, discuss the primary results
of the paper and how these results could be applied to a business application.
Your paper must follow current APA standards and be no more than three pages in
length, not including any appendices or attachments.
Part Two will involve developing a
regression model for a topic of your choosing in an attempt to explain a
phenomenon of interest. In doing so, you will be required to locate data on the
Internet and do the appropriate analysis. You will also have to explain your
topic of interest, the variables chosen, and why the variables were chosen, in
addition to presenting and explaining your results. Your paper should include
the following:
Introduction – describe the phenomena
you are attempting to model and its importance (2 – 3 paragraphs)
Literature Review (find at least two
references) – who has done similar work and what were their findings? (2 – 3
paragraphs)
Data – summary statistics of the data (2
– 3 paragraphs)
Methods and Results – what analysis did
you perform and what were the expectations for the model? Were your results
similar to those in the references you used? (3 – 6 paragraphs)
Conclusions (2 – 3 paragraphs)

Your paper must follow current APA
standards. Be sure to include tables as necessary and to label them properly
(review the APA manual and the readings from Module 1).
Throughout the course there have been
many topics related to analyzing data that you should consider including in
your write-up such as a graph of the data. In the Appendix, you may want to
include graphs used to evaluate normal distribution. A discussion of the
results of such analysis should be included in the results section of the
paper.
An example of a potential problem would
be house values. Many counties have online tax records, which include detailed
information about a house. Data may include square footage of a house, whether
there is a fireplace, square footage of a deck, whether there is a basement,
finished basement square footage, and lot size. Collecting the data would take
a little work and would require determining how many houses you should collect
data from to be able to develop a model. This topic is off limits but there are
many topics available to you