Economics Homework Help

Your report is intended for the authors of the paper and for the journal editor. There is
no absolute length requirement, but I would expect most reports to be between 3 and 5
double‐spaced pages and it should include the following parts: 1. A summary of the paper, which discusses the main research question(s), the methodology used by the authors, and the main conclusions and contributions of
the paper. 2. A discussion of whether the question or questions asked are important (or not)
and whether you find the results from the paper convincing or not (and why?) 3. A discussion of the concerns you have with the paper. These concerns could be
related to the data being used, the theoretical model or models, the empirical
methods, sample selection issues (do the data seem to be a representative
sample?), possible alternative explanations for the results that the authors do not
consider (or do not consider sufficiently), and any other weaknesses of the paper,
which might include anything, including poor grammar, poor writing, or
misspellings. 4. A referee report is meant to be constructive criticism, so, whenever possible,
provide possible suggestions for improvement. 5. Finally, your report should include a recommendation to the editor on whether
to accept the paper for publication in its current form, to suggest that the authors
revise and later resubmit the paper for publication with suggested revisions, or
to reject the paper for publication.