Final Shadow Spring 2024 SJER Project Instructions &
Details
Here is what you’ll need to do to finalizes your projects:
Pull together the following tables, figures from the
labs:
1) Lab 1: the industry-based establishment employment table for Atlantic City and the February 2020 benchmarked total employment figure for Atlantic City, New Jersey, and the U.S.
2) Lab 2: the first two figures you produced in this lab. the first showseasonally adjusted monthly unemployment rates for Atlantic City, New Jersey, and the U.S. The 2nd showed Atlantic City’s labor force and unemployment rate. Make sure that your write-uptied to the second chart focuses on the labor force story, i.e., do NOT repeat the unemployment rate story again.
3) Lab 3: the two figure you produced in this lab. The first showed the number of authorized single-family and apartment units authorized by building permit. The second showed the evolution of single-family home prices in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and the U.S. since 2000. You do not need to include the table you put together that was tied to the home price chart — thought the information you set out ithat table is obviously relevant to any discussion of those prices.
4) Lab 5 – Figure 2– population growth in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and the U.S.– from this lab. That’s it.
All these tables/figures have write-ups and were provided on all of these tables/figures and analytical written material.
Your finalized Shadow Spring Project should include the tables/figures listed above along with their associated written analytical descriptions and insights etc. All tables/figures should be embedded in your Microsoft. Remember use Copy/Paste special/Picture (enhanced Metafile) option to embed your tables and figures into MS Word.
I expect all tables, figures, and analytical text to fully incorporate my feedback. This means they should be flawless, with descriptive titles, complete sources, legends, axes’ titles, and adherence to professional writing conventions. Please review the documents in the “Analytical Writing in Economics” folder.
Feel free to use this revised statement.
Once you have integrated all of your tables, figures, and
text and finalized them all, you’ll need to do 3 final things ahead of
submitting your project:
1. Write up an “Atlantic City Outlook” section to
conclude your report. This should be approximately 300-400 words—about 1 page.
This will likely prove the most challenging aspect of finalizing your report.
You obviously have significant material to draw upon given your analytical work
to date. I encourage you to read through the final few pages of the Summer 2021
edition of the SJER to get a sense of what might be involved in this: https://stockton.edu/hughes-center/sjer/documents/2021-0616-sjer-summer-2021.pdf
2. Produce one
ENTIRELY NEW TABLE or FIGURE that sheds some additional, interesting light
on Atlantic City’s recent economic experience/recovery over the past few years
etc. Entirely up to you…see what you can come up with! 
This table or figure must include at least
one paragraph of analytical text/commentary.
3. You must also submitt a 1-2 paragraph reflection on this project. This doesn’t have to be long, but I want you to reflect upon what you learned, what questions is prompted, what would have improved it, etc.
Please review the documents as well as the “Instructions Details for the Final Shadow Project SJER Spring 2024” doc for the complete instructions on what to do.
