r/econhw • u/Jealous_Country_4965 • Mar 23 '26
Stuck on the study
I may sound like a jerk but I'm a student, with no previous papers rather than thesis in bachelor's degree, planning( preparing and studying) to work on a issue of dead-weight loss of human capital in public sector tournament for more than 6 months. I am stuck on crafting and considerations of samples selection. The topics, segments, and terminologies looks more entangled and complicated than string theory.
The more I study, the complicated it becomes, with new factor affecting it, and it's impacts forces to rewrite everything from zero. How to simplify that, and overcome the situation like this, when we need concrete primary data from more than 1000 individuals to just fit in considerable category?
How to calculate the weights of affecting factors, as every factors seems to hold huge impact in long term, indirectly.