Objective: The purpose of this assignment is to bring together all of the elements that we have learned throughout the course and put them to work in a single empirical work testing your OWN hypothesis.  Simply replicating an analysis from a previous chapter's assignment is NOT acceptable.

Task: Complete the assignment in Le Roy Chapter 14, and write up a typewritten paper (4-6 double-spaced pages in length, not including tables) covering the following details:

• Your research question
  
  
• Your concepts and conceptual definitions
  
  
• Your operationalizations
  
  
• Your hypothesis, along with your theoretical justification for your hypothesis.
  
  • (Be sure to also include a discussion of the control variable(s) you introduce and why you think they are important)
    
  
  
• A brief discussion of the particular method/statistics you are using to test your hypothesis
  
  
• A presentation of your results (in tables using the proper form as presented in Le Roy), along with a discussion of those results
  
  • Whether you perform your analysis using crosstabulation or regression, you MUST include typewritten tables in your paper using the proper format as presented in your MicroCase text.
  • MicroCase printouts of your tables are NOT acceptable.
    
  
  
• Your conclusions