Week 6: First Drafts and Further Regressions

Hi everyone,

I don’t have as much to report from this last week since, on the independent project front, I have been working on the first draft of my final paper, starting with the section on consumption smoothing. This week, I will work on the sections concerning payday frequency and alternative methods to addressing the issues brought about by imperfect consumption smoothing. I hope to summarize these findings in my next post.

For my internship, I’ve begun working on a presentation for some of my early findings that I will hopefully share with the department later on. In the process, I have had to figure out which of my findings are statistically significant, as well as whether there are any associated variables that could be responsible for the trends in the data other than the specific variables that I have been looking at. In doing so, I have been running some more advanced regressions and analyzing various p values and confidence intervals.