I've wrote a proposal but it's not so good so maybe it's changeable. here is the detail. The paper should be at least 2000 words long and . The proposal should cover the motivation of your topic, data collection/source(s), which econometric model you will use and how to assess the validity of your results. I will provide my feedback to your proposal and then you could finish the final version of your paper, which is a realization of every aspects of your proposal. To find interesting topics, you are encouraged to glance over titles of articles in some top-tier economics journals (e.g., American Economic Review and Quarterly Journal of Economics).