Vernon L. Smith
High School Workshop
in Experimental Economics

July 2010 (Currently Closed)
at Chapman University

Download 2009 workshop brochure (PDF)

Next summer ESI will host two weeklong workshops on experimental economics for high school students. For those high school students who might not have the opportunity to study economics in their high schools, the objective of these workshops is to expose them to and get them interested in the foundations of economic analysis using experimental economics. A subset of the students may have already taken economics classes, and for those students, the goal is to cultivate their interest in economics and introduce them to economics as an observational science with new topics, problems, and experiments. These workshops do not assume any previous study in economics.

Next year we will have a limited number of travel scholarships available for students who are not from southern California. The travel scholarship includes:

• Reimbursement of up to $550 for flights

• Housing in Chapman dorms

• 3 meals a day

Please check the box on the application if you wish to be considered for the travel scholarship. For more detailed information regarding traveling students please click here.

In addition to applying, a completed Recommendation Form is required. It  should be faxed to us at 714/628-2881.  Applications are being accepted until April 1st and after that only as space allows. Please use these forms:

Contact Us if you have any questions.

Quotes from Past Fellows:

• “I earned and I learned!”

• “It was a wonderful relief from the normal, everyday approach to learning and teaching.”

• “It was a hands-on way to let us apply what we learned and with great incentives.”

• “Learned a lot about economics in the real world, and we got to meet new people.”

• “Very fun and interesting and you actually retain the information."

• “The way the workshop is taught you actually remember the topics you learn.”

• “I enjoyed myself a great deal and learned something at the same time, which is sadly fairly unusual.”

• “Economics is considered as ‘dismal science,’ but the experiments make it fascinating!”