This past summer ESI hosted 9 high school, undergraduate, and graduate students as summer interns. The program is generously sponsored by the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE) and by research grants to the ESI.  As part of the fellowship, the interns who were not from southern California lived in campus residence hall for the six weeks of the program. In addition to compiling and analyzing data sets from research experiments and conducting new research experiments, the interns and their mentor Prof. Bart Wilson regularly met as a reading group to discuss Vernon Smith's Rationality in Economics, F.A. Hayek's The Sensory Order, and Stephen Buckle's Natural Law and the Theory of Property, as well as papers in experimental economics and evolutionary psychology.

We will begin accepting applications for next summer's program in late January.  All applicants must either have participated in the Vernon L. Smith High School Workshop or have taken at least one course in experimental economics at the undergraduate level.

Application (Currently Closed)