presenting the paper, you should spend at least 5 minutes describing a research

presenting the paper, you should spend at least 5 minutes describing a research or policy
idea related to the paper.
You have to use slides (my recommendation: around 15 slides)
Guiding questions (list not exhaustive!)
Every presentation will be different since they will be based on different papers, but there
are some common guidelines to adhere to, and some questions that you should make sure
that you answer in the presentation:
1. Which questions do the authors try to answer?
2. Which empirical strategy and which methods are they using?
3. Which results do they document? How?
4. Would you regard these results as trustworthy? As well identified? Why / why not?
5. How would you relate this piece of research to the topics that we have discussed in class?
Where does this fit in?
6. What potential policy implications may these results have?
7. What new research would the paper inspire you to conduct?
What does ”well identified” mean?
”Well identified” refers to whether any causal relations that the authors are claiming are
actually causal as opposed to correlational.
– How are the authors trying to get at causality?
– Which assumptions may they be relying on?
– Do you think that the result that they document is causal or correlational?
A few tips!
Since you have only 25 minutes time, you will obviously not have time to tell the
audience everything that is in the paper
An important part of this task is hence to tease out the most important things from
the paper, and convey these to the rest of us
You will most likely have to read other papers than just the one assigned (e.g. work
cited in the paper that you will be presenting, or work otherwise related) – to understand
where in the literature this paper fits in, methods, etc