FULL CITATION OF YOUR REPLICATION PAPER/REPORT CHAPTER
ECON7030
Section 1: Your Research Proposal (Replication Plan)
1. Introduce the topic. Briefly state the context of your research. State the research problem and discuss the motivation for this research (e.g., what is the area of conflict, concern, or controversy; something that needs solution?).
Ø Clearly state the research question & hypothesis.
✓ Clearly state the research question (s) that you would like to investigate. Briefly discuss the rationale, supporting your claim using evidence from the literature.
✓ What is the research hypothesis (e.g., I will test the hypothesis that income inequality has increased in Australia over the last two decades).
Ø What is the expected contribution of this research?
2. Briefly discuss the proposed empirical approach with respect to the following:
i. Data: at the least mention the following:
a. the name of the survey, study period, type of data (cross sectional, time series, pooled or panel, survey design if relevant (e.g., stratified random sample).
b. Your expected sample size.
c. Unit of analysis (e.g., women aged 14-49 years or households/families with children or cities with population < X million).
ii. Key variables: e.g., key dependent variable, key independent variable, control variables.
iii. Proposed empirical strategy (e.g., Logistic regression, Panel fixed effect, ARDL etc.). Include a brief justification as to why this is the appropriate method to test your hypothesis.
Section 2: Literature review
You will review of the scholarly literature using relevant database (Google scholar, Econlit, OP’s reference list). In your literature review, you are required to include some output generated by ChatGPT and highlight them. Subsequently we will evaluate the co-creation with AI. We will assess you on the following aspects:
· Prompt: How effectively you design the prompt(s) for AI, appropriately incorporating disciplinary knowledge.
· Critical evaluation: How well you evaluate and utilize AI-suggested resources, as in whether you simply adopt AI-generated content or make conscious choices about what to include.
· Information and digital literacy: How you complement AI-generated content by relevant scholarly sources based on your own literature search, to enhance the reliability of the output.
· Ethical consideration: Your awareness of the reliability, biases, and other limitations of AI-generated content.
The literature review MUST focus on the following:
1. Core issues. In general, how has thinking in this area of research evolved over time and how has this informed the analytical approach of the selected study. Also review the key issues related to data and study design.
2. Conceptual framework. What theoretical framework/conceptual framework guides the research design / and analytical approach in this literature?
3. Identify the gap in the literature: In what way(s) is the current state of knowledge on your selected topic is lacking/limited / in need of extending? Include a brief discussion on what is missing in this literature.
4. Conclusion. Conclude by highlighting future direction(s) of research – what remains to be done in this literature.
5. Evaluating co-creation with AI. The final paragraph of your literature review must include a brief evaluation of your interaction with ChatGPT versus your own search of the literature. You are required to comment on the following:
ü Clearly state your prompt.
ü Do you think you could solely rely on AI-generated output to write the literature review? Why or why not?
ü How do the scholarly citations that you have included through your own search improve upon ChatGPT generated output?