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School of Business and Management
Department of Economics

want to merge the dataset of building permits and some other datasets, like the house price, to investigate: 1. Whether
the regions where are more likely to be submerged will receive less building permits or not. And 2. Whether or not the
correlation between those two facts mentioned in 1 will be lower in the regions whose house prices are higher.

The motivation and career choices of public workers

Supervisor: LIN Yatang / ECON
Student: HAN Xinze / MAEC Course: UROP1100, Spring
UROP2100, Summer

The intended research question is to identify the influence of anti-corruption campaign in China on the career choice of
civil servants. Since the research is in its infancy period, the main job is to obtain the data which could reflect the
popularity of job among candidates, in which case we choose the minimum score line to enter the interview session of
China’s national examination for admission to civil service to measure. We collect data starting from year 2008 from
several institutions in terms of department, position and minimum score to enter the interview session, etc. For each
year, we merge all data in a worksheet in order to do further analysis. In addition, some data collection work about
information of Shanghai metro stations has been done.

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