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Download and read the paper:

Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft and Irène Selwaness (2017), “The Impact of Early Marriage on Women’s Employment in the Middle East and North Africa”  http://erf.org.eg/publications/the-impact-of-early-marriage-on-womens-employment-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/

Answer all the following questions, using the suggested data which is the most recently available wave of the survey used by the authors of this assigned paper:

1.      Replicate two of the graphs included in the paper for Egypt only. It may be a good idea to choose the graph that may help you to better explain your regression results in question 2. (4 points)

2.      Replicate any of the two models included in the assigned paper. It is expected that you would be able to exactly reproduce all the variables used in the model with the same sample conditions. If for any reason you cannot reproduce some of the variables, explain why and suggest similar others to include if possible. Compare your results to that included in the paper. If any discrepancy (regarding the sign and significance) exists, explain in your opinion what may be the main causes behind such discrepancy.     (10 points: do file and results)

3.      Interpret the results of your produced models in detail in your own words, as if you are writing a result section of this paper (i.e. not in bullet points format). If you do not agree with any of the arguments provided in the authors discussion explain why providing your own alternative argument. (8 points)

4.      Discuss any policy implications you may think of based on your results. (2 points)

5.      Are you worried about any potential econometrics problem that may exists in any of the models included in the paper? Explain in details providing a suggestion on how you may solve such a problem using the same data or assuming that you have access to other data sources. Write the model you suggest in an equation form as well as in Stata language. (2 points)

6.      If you have easy access to all the needed data at hand estimate your suggested model in 5 and interpret its results as compared to those discussed in 2. Otherwise, explain why cannot you do so. (2 points)

7.      Provide any remaining suggestions you may have on how the paper overall may be advanced. (2 points)

After I know the price I will send the stata dataset needed and all needed material