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An economics research paper includes the parts listed below. Some of these may be, and often are, combined into sections of the research paper. Depending on the nature of the research question, some ...

The brevity of an abstract belies its importance to a manuscript. It’s what catches a reader’s attention and helps them to decide whether a paper is relevant. Yet failing to reflect the content of the ...

This blog introduces a series of occasional blogs that will investigate the accuracy of abstracts of journal articles. As we will see in the series, abstracts are often quite misleading and tend to ...