Designing a Study-Welcome
Course overview
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Assignments and grading
Suggested Reading List (Optional)
Designing a Study-Week 1 Video Lectures: Designing a Study
1.1 Designing a Study
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1.2 The Research Proposal
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1.3 Aims
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1.4 Impact and Significance
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1.5 Background-Literature Review
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1.6 Methodology
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1.7 Data
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1.8 Summary
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Designing a Study-Week 1 Suggested Reading (optional)
Week 1 General Reading List
Week 1 Designing a study
Evidence-Week 2 Video Lectures: Evidence
2.1 Evidence
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2.2 Survey data
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2.3 Public data
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2.4. Administrative and archival microdata
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2.5. Multi-generational microdata
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2.6 Aggregated data
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2.7 Sources of aggregated data
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2.8 Qualitative sources
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2.9 New sources
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2.10 Summary
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Evidence-Week 2 Suggested Reading (optional)
Week 2 Evidence
Sampling-Week 3 Video Lectures: Sampling
3.1. Overview: Sampling
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3.2. Surveys and sampling
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3.3. Probability sampling
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3.4. Clustered sampling
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3.5. Stratification, oversampling
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3.6. Respondent-driven sampling
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3.7(a) Conducting a survey - Preparation
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3.7(b) Conducting a survey - Designing a Questionnaire
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3.8. Response rates and follow-up
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3.9. Summary
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Sampling-Week 3 Suggested Reading (optional)
Week 3 Sampling
Public Data for China-Week 4 Video Lectures: Public data for China
4.1. Overview: Public data for China
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4.2. China General Social Survey
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4.3. China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey
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4.4. China Family Panel Studies
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4.5. China Health and Nutrition Survey
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4.6. The China Multigenerational Panel Datasets (CMGPD)
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4.7. Other major datasets
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4.8. Summary
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Public Data for China-Week 4 Suggested Reading (optional)
Week 4 Public Data for China
Quantitative Analysis-Week 5 Video Lectures: Quantitative Analysis
5.1 Overview: Quantitative Analysis
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5.2 Tabulations
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5.3a Correlation and regression I
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5.3b Correlation and regression II
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5.4 Regression to the mean
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5.5 Statistical significance
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5.6 Type I errors
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5.7 Type II errors
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5.8 Summary Quantitative Analysis
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Quantitative Analysis-Week 5 Suggested Reading (optional)
Week 5 Quantitative Analysis
Research and Professional Ethics-Week 6 Video Lectures: Research and professional ethics
6.1 Overview of research and professional ethics
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6.2 The protection of subjects
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6.3 Consent
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6.4 Confidentiality
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6.5 International research
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6.6 Research funding and publication
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6.7 Data sharing
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6.8 Mentor/student relationship
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6.9 Summary: Research and professional ethics
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Research and Professional Ethics-Week 6 Suggested Reading (optional)
Week 6 Research and professional ethics
Where to go from here-Week 7 Video Lectures: Where to go from here ...
7.1 Overview - where to go from here
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7.2 Options for advanced study in social science
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7.3 Choosing a PG program
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7.4 Writing the personal statement
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7.5 Research proposals and writing samples
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7.6 Recommendation letters
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7.7 Summary - where to go from here
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Where to go from here-Week 7 Suggested Reading (optional)
Week 7 Where to go from here
Final exam-Farewell
Part 2: Concluding remarks
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