microeconomics_videos

This repository contains replication materials for The Effect of Supplementary Videos on University Educational Outcomes by M. Famulari and Z. Goodman.

Experiment Overview

The purpose of the experiment is to estimate the effectiveness of the Intermediate Microeconomics Video Handbook (IMVH) on learning outcomes in the first intermediate microeconomics course at UC San Diego. The course is taken by about 400 students per fall quarter.

Of note, the design of the experiment includes randomizing students who scored below a sharp cutoff into treatment and control, allowing us to estimate two local average treatment effects (LATE):

1. The LATE for students who scored below the cutoff
2. The LATE for students who scored at the cutoff

Preview of findings

1. The incentive (requiring the videos as part of the students' grade) induced substantial takeup of the videos.
2. Treatment significantly increased student test scores on both exams following the start of the experiment.
3. Treated students continue to watch videos more frequently than their control peers during the second course in the sequence.

Repository details

We are unable to post the data used because of privacy restrictions. However, the repository contains the output from our Jupyter Notebooks:

• Data prep
• Data analysis

More information

• Description of IMVH
• CAMSEE Research Plan