Natalia Smirnova

Our Teach-the-Teachers program encourages creative ways to explain economic concepts. One alumnus, Steve Estelle, created an especially creative teaching tool: He demonstrated inflation using things purchased during a day at the ballpark.

Money School, which helps give survivors of domestic abuse and sexual assault the skills they need to manage their finances independently, is returning in the weeks ahead.

As part of our mission, the American Institute for Economic Research engages in multiple outreach activities promoting the love of economics, career readiness skills, and an experiential approach to learning. We are building the cadre of alumni of our education programs, who keep in touch with the Institute over time.

How would you use a sampling distribution to measure unemployment? Students at Lee Middle and High School, in Lee, Massachusetts, recently learned this lesson with some help from the American Institute for Economic Research.

This January we have two students from Bard College at Annandale-On-Hudson as AIER interns during the January intersession. Residential Winter Term, which is part of our Academic Year Internship program, premièred last year. Even though students’ time with us is limited (only three weeks), we are confident that they will gain some valuable insights into…

As an organization that strives to promote financial literacy to all Americans, it helps to both understand what financial literacy is, and to understand the breadth of the challenge before us.

Our Teach-the-Teachers program, which helps high school teachers create lessons in economics, includes a section on government budgets. In an interactive manner, we look at federal, state, and local budgeting processes, revenues and expenditures. One of the teachers from 2015 program, Kerry Hartley from Canton High School in Connecticut, decided to adapt this lesson to…

During the summer, I came across a book that described macroeconomic foundations, models, and frameworks in a simple way. I was so intrigued by the clarity of the explanations that I wrote a book review, which just got published in The American Economist. The book by Kartik Athreya is called “Big Ideas in Macroeconomics: A…

Teachers who went through the AIER Teach-the-Teachers Initiative continue to dazzle us with creativity and innovative practices in their classrooms. On September 9, 2015, we observed two American History II lessons taught by Drew Gibson at Mount Greylock Regional School in Williamstown, Mass. The purpose of the lessons was defined by the teacher as “discovering…

As the Summer Fellowship Practicum wrapped up last week, we are excited to learn that two of this year’s fellows have either lined up a job or paid internship already.