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Case Study/Policy Brief

The course requires a case study analysis or a short policy brief. The goal of the case study/policy brief it to demonstrate your learning of the concepts covered in the class by coming up with a real world application that you can describe/solve using tools and methods from the course.

Your application should be a "real" application, but you can make up reasonable values for parameters when you are not able to get real data. The goal is to highlight your ability to apply the methods, so you can make up rough parameters/numbers etc.

This assignment is not meant to be a burden but an opportunity to explore an area or topic that interests you. In the past, students have continued working on similar short papers and developed them to longer papers and on some occasions presented them at conferences.

(i) A separate title page.
(ii) The body of the paper is 4 - 8 pages of text but this could vary with the topic (any tables, graphs and figures are extra).
(iii) Double spaced, 1" margins all around, 12-pt font.
(iv) The paper contains background information about the topic and motivates why its important.
(v) The paper includes at least one specific section where you use or refer to models/methods from class. This can be multiple sections depending on the depth of your analysis.
(vi) Your paper includes a brief conclusion where you summarize the key results.
(vii) In a separate sheet at the end of the paper, you have a biography that lists your sources. You can use any format for references but you should be consistent within your paper.