09 Nov article summery
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Theory: In this section describe the theory and prior literature that the authors draw upon. What are the research questions this paper asks? What are the hypotheses/predictions between the main concepts/variables? How do the authors justify their predictions? What are the main theories this paper is testing? What have prior studies found on this topic?
Data: What data source does the paper use? What sampling technique does that data source use (random, non-random, oversample of some population…). What is the target population of the sample/who is the sample generalizable to (everyone in the U.S., workers, college students…). What is the analysis sample size? Was missing data an issue?
Methods: What is the statistical method(s) used in the analysis? What is the dependent variable and how is it measured? How are the main explanatory variables operationalized (don’t need to describe how every variable is measured, just the main ones)?
Results: Describe the results of the quantitative analysis. What are the major findings (statistical significance, direction of relationships, magnitude of effects if stated…). Any robustness checks (sensitivity analysis) or supplementary analysis?
Conclusion: Do the results support the main theory and hypotheses?
Limitations: Do the authors mention any potential limitations of this study? Do you notice any potential limitations of this study? This can be anything you think is a limitation including theoretical framing, data source, sampling, variable measurement, omitted variables, model specification, etc.
Other Notes: Don’t need to have anything here. But if there is an important technical note, footnote, or anything else that you think is relevant you can mention it here.
