Luận văn nghiên cứu hướng học thuật

• Title page
• Declaration
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Abstract (Research problems. Research objectives. Research methodology (models, data). Research results)
• Table of Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Figures

1. Problem statements

• Description of what is happening in practice and it associated problems
• Description of research gap
• Specification of research problem

2. Research objectives

• Could add research questions here

3. Scope of the study

• Scope in terms of topic, time, studied site

4. Structure of the thesis

1. Review of theory

• Discussion of the crucial concepts used
• Presentation of relevant theory or development of theoretical framework

2. Review of empirical studies

• Review by topics (concepts and methodology. DO NOT review by listing each paper and summarising its abstract).

3. Summary

1. Analytical framework

• Presentation of the analytical framework
• Citing sources of theories and empirical papers that your analytical framework is built on.

2. Econometric models

• Justification of the approach
• Presenting the models (preferably detailed model with functional form and specification i.e. variables, not models in general form)
• Description of variables: definition and measurement (ways to measure the variable, including unit)
• Briefly presenting econometric approach
  • Models: OLS, Logit, Tobit, Panel data etc.?
  • Estimation method: Ordinary least squares, Maximum likelihood, generalised method of moments etc.?
  • Regression diagnostic: model fitness, multicollinearity, heteroscedasticity etc.
  • Model specification: possible endogeneity problem

3. Data

• Description of dataset: sources, dataset structure, sampling method etc.
• If primary data: describing questionnaire structure, data collection method, and sampling

1. Overview of the research topic

• Background information on the topic: description of studied sites, history, trend, institutional context, legal documents etc.

2. Descriptive statistics

• Table of descriptive statistics that contains sample size, mean, standard deviation, min, max
• Graphs: distributional graphs of main variables in the model (for example histogram in Stata)
• Table of correlation coefficients
• Graphs that graphically shows the relationship between two main variables (e.g. Y and X)

3. Regression results

(hints: never start a section by a table or figure. Write an introduction paragraph and then show tables or figures)

• Presenting regression results in tables
• Presenting and discussing results of diagnostic tests: R2, multicollinearity, heteroscedasticity, endogeneity etc.
• Describing meaning of estimated coefficients in words (negative/positive, significance/insignificance)

4. Discussions

• Discuss the economic meaning of the regression results
• Compare the results to results from empirical studies reviewed in chapter 2

1. Conclusions

• Summarising problem, objective, methodology and main results
• Strengths of the research

2. Policy implications

• Policy suggestions should relate directly to the research results

3. Limits of the study

• Weaknesses of the research
• Suggestions for further research

References

Appendix

• Any supporting evidences
• Stata codes and original Stata results