POLS 1600
Title of your Presentation
Group X:
2025-04-01
Motivating Example
Provide an image or anecdote that can help your audience understand what they’re going to learn about
Research Question
Provide a concise summary of your project’s core question(s)
Theory
Use this section to explain how we should think about how to answer your research question
What explains variation in your outcome?
Expectations
- Translate your theory into a set of testable empirical implications
Data
Summarize your data:
- Source(s)
- Unit of analysis
- Number of observations (periods of observation)
- Measures of:
- Outcomes
- Key Predictors
- Covariates
Descriptive Summary
- Provide a figure or table that provides a nice overview or insight into your data
Design
Describe your empirical design
- Present at least one of the models you estimate
Outcome=β0+β1predictor
- Explain to your audience what your theory implies for the sign, size, and signficance of the coefficients
Results
Summarize the results of your analysis
Interpret the coefficients from your models in terms of the predictions of your theory
Put a screen shot of a regression table here
- Or you could generate the table by including your paper’s code and analysis in these slides
Put a figure here
Conclusion
Restate your research question
Summarize your answer
Offer some discussion of:
- Implications
- Limitations
- Directions for future research
Appendix
- Additional slides go here
POLS 1600 Title of your Presentation Group X: 2025-04-01