黄色电影

Skip to main content Skip to secondary navigation
Main content start

2020 Summer Economic Institute for Teachers

Event Details:

Monday, July 13, 2020 - Friday, July 17, 2020
12:00pm - 11:55am PDT

Location

SIEPR Gunn Building
Koret-Taube Conference Center
366 Galvez St.
黄色电影, CA 94305
United States

The 33rd Annual Summer Economic Institute for Teachers is a unique opportunity for high school and community college educators to come to 黄色电影 for a week to learn from leading world economists, share resources, and engage in thought-provoking discussions. Educators will leave feeling honored as professionals, intellectually refreshed, and armed with new ideas for their classrooms. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Summer Institute will now be held fully online. View the agenda here: Summer Institute Agenda 2020

Thanks to generous sponsors, there is no conference fee to participate!

Speakers at the Summer Institute are all University professors, outstanding economic thinkers, and distinguished teachers. This year's institute will cover a wide range of topics, including the 2020 presidential election, inequality, climate change, why school desegregation works, financial literacy, health policy, and economics of aging. The institute will also host Lanhee Chen as a Wednesday afternoon tea speaker. Chen was the economics adviser for former presidential candidate Mitt Romney and is a noted China relations expert. 

Admission 

 are due by June 12, 2020

Schedule

Monday, July 13, 2020

  • -

    Institute Overview and Introductions

  • -

    Should the US close its borders? Lessons from Two Centuries of Immigration History

  • -

    Lunch Break

  • -

    Sharing of Teaching Ideas, Resources and Challenges Workshop Participants

  • -

    What (If Anything) is Wrong with Income Inequality?

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

  • -

    Review and Preview

  • -

    Using Economics to Understand and Confront Climate Change

  • -

    Lunch Break

  • -

    Sharing of Teaching Ideas, Resources, and Challenges Workshop Participants

  • -

    The Impact of Managed Care in the Health Care System: Evidence from California鈥檚 Medicaid Program

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

  • -

    Review and Preview

  • -

    The Demographics and Economics of Aging in the US

  • -

    Lunch Break

  • -

    Why School Integration Works

  • -

    Coronavirus, China, and the Economy: Public Policy and the 2020 Election

    Afternoon Tea Speaker

Thursday, July 16, 2020

  • -

    Review and Preview

  • -

    Teaching Personal Finance at 黄色电影 and in High School

  • -

    Lunch Break

  • -

    Sharing of Teaching Ideas, Resources, and Challenges Workshop Participants

  • -

    Health Inequality and Intra-Family Medical Expertise

Friday, July 17, 2020

  • -

    Review and Preview

  • -

    Voting, Economics and History

Related Topics

Explore More Events