Description:

Econometrics professor Eric Bettinger created this site inspired by his belief that undergraduate students respond and learn more deeply when they can relate personally to the subject matter in the lesson examples. At this site, there are thirty-three support sections devoted to topics in econometrics, calculus, and statistics. Designed to be adjunct learning support to the Econometrics undergrads in Dr. Bettinger's course, each topical module contains three sections:

The Review section contains background material and class-discussed support material to define and orient the student to the concept.

The Interactive example contains a fun-to-practice, lighthearted interactive exercise which teaches econometrics calculations through gathering and manipulation of data pertinent to the undergraduate student's personal interests. Whimsical subjects such as student dating ratios, jumping contests, and imagined meetings with movie stars in the campus coffeehouse are featured in these examples. The student receives feedback through multiple choice decision quizzes.

The Real World example tackles a more serious and generally common topic from the business, government, or NGO world of econometrics. Similar in intent and presentation to the Interactive example, the subject matter and data of the real world modules concern such topics as World Bank calculations, population projections, and analysis of various statistical bunches of real data.

The series of modules on Econometrics concludes with a Document Archive of course-related articles.