Past Conference Schedules

See the following schedules from past years' Mountain West Ecomomics History Conferences.

• 2025 Schedule
• 2024 Schedule
• 2023 Schedule
• 2022 Schedule
• 2020 Schedule
• 2019 Schedule

2025 Schedule (February 21-22)

Distinguished Chairs: Charles Calomiris (Columbia University), Ann Carlos (University of Colorado-Boulder) Karen Clay (Carnegie Mellon University), Price Fishback (University of Arizona), Carolyn Moehling (Rutgers University)

Friday– Feb. 21

2:00-2:15pm	Introduction and Welcome
2:15-3:00pm	Randall Walsh (University of Pittsburgh), H. Spencer Banzhaf (North Carolina State University), William Mathews (University of Pittsburgh) – “Hell With the Lid Off: Racial Segregation and Environmental Equity in America's Most Polluted City”
3:00-3:15pm	Break
3:15-4:00pm	Cameron LaPoint (Yale University) and Gustavo Cortes (University of Florida) - “Housing Is the Financial Cycle: Evidence from 100 Years of Local Building Permits”
4:00-4:15pm	Break
4:15-5:00pm	Lorena Keller (University of Pennsylvania), Ricardo Pique (University of Pennsylvania) – “Trade Liberalization and Local Economic Activity: Evidence from the Savoy Great Free Zone”
5:00-5:15pm	Break
5:15-6:00pm	James Harrison (US Naval Academy), Saunok Chakrabarty (Purdue University), Mario Crucini (Purdue University) – “A Forensic Analysis of US Ad-Valorem and Legislated Tariff Rates, 1916-1933”
6:15pm	Dinner

Friday– Feb. 22

8:00-9:45am	Breakfast
8:45-9:30am	Craig Palsson (Utah State University), Parker Sonnenberg (Florida State University) – “Incomplete Property Rights and Farm Size: Evidence from Haiti”
9:30-9:45am	Break
9:45-10:00pm	Haley Wilbert (University of Notre Dame) – “Intergenerational Mobility and Family Size: Evidence from the Census Tree”
10:00-10:15pm	João Tampellini (Vanderbilt University) – “Labor Shocks, Market Adjustments, and Racial Inequality: World War I and the Origins of the Great Migration”
10:15-10:30am	Jacob Van Leeuwen (Texas A&M University) – “The long run effects of anti-immigrant institutional discrimination: Evidence from Philadelphia”
10:30-10:45am	Noah MacDonald (Emory University) – “The Effectiveness of Doxxing: Evidence from the Second Ku Klux Klan”
10:45am-11:00am	Break
11:00-11:15am	Jian Qi Tan (University of Pittsburgh) – “Resource Shocks and University Expansion in the United States”
11:15m-11:30am	Levi Edwards (University of California, Irvine) – “Public Investment and the Benefits of Antebellum Canals”
11:30-11:45am	Yujing Huang (University of California, Los Angeles) – “Religion and Conflict: Evidence from China, 1860–1911”
11:45am-12:00pm	Jacob Greenspon (University of Oxford) – “Getting workers ‘on board’ with automation: Evidence from shipping container adoption”
12:00-1:45pm	Lunch
1:45-2:30pm	Taylor Jaworski (University of Colorado, Boulder), Carl Kitchens (Florida State University), Luke Rodgers (Florida State University) – “Human Capital Decisions in Resource Booms: Evidence for the Role of Dynamic Complementarities”
2:30-2:45pm	Break
2:45-3:30pm	Nicolas Ziebarth (University of Missouri), Price V. Fishback (University of Arizona), Chris Vickers (Auburn University), Yiyu Xing (University of California, Los Angeles) – “Beyond Clock: Labor Market Effects of Lifting Gender-Specific Hours Restrictions”
3:30-4:00pm	Extended Break
4:00-4:45pm	Daniela Vidart (University of Connecticut), Remy Levin (University of Connecticut) – “Lifetime Wage Experiences and the Decline of Male Labor Force Participation in the United States”
4:45-5:00pm	Break
5:00-5:45pm	Andreas Ferrara (University of Pittsburg), Madison Arnsbarger (Weber State University), Paige Montrose (University of Pittsburg) – “The U.S. Civil War’s Impact on Women’s Work and Political Participation”
6:00pm	Dinner

2024 Schedule (February 23-24)

Friday– Feb. 23

2:15-2:30pm	Introduction and Welcome
2:30-3:15pm	Steven Smith (Colorado School of Mines), Eric Alston (University of Colorado, Boulder), Bryan Leonard (Arizona State University), Joseph Price (BYU) – "Did Improving the Lot Improve the Lots of People? Evaluating the Economic Mobility from the Homestead Act"
3:15-3:30pm	Break
3:30-4:15pm	Martin Rotemberg (New York University), Richard Hornbeck (University of Chicago), Shanon Hsuan-Ming Hsu (University of Chicago), Anders Humlum (University of Chicago) – “Technological Stickiness: Switching and Entry in the Long Transition from Water to Steam Power”
4:15-4:30pm	Break
4:30-5:15pm	Chase Ross (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve), Ahyan Panjwani (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve), Sharon Ross (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve) – “Leaving Money on the Table”
5:15-5:30pm	Break
5:30-6:15pm	Omer Ali (University of Pittsburgh) – “The Impact of Federal Housing Policies on Racial Inequality: the case of the Federal Housing Administration”
6:15pm	Dinner

Saturday– Feb. 24

8:15-9:00am	Breakfast
9:00-9:45am	Matthew Jaremski (Utah State University), Gillian Brunet (Smith College), Eric Hilt (Wellesley College) – “‘Invest!’: Liberty Bonds and Stock Ownership over the Twentieth Century”
9:45-10:00am	Break
10:00-10:15pm	Elena Ojeda (University of California, Berkeley) – “Left Behind: The Bracero Program and Mexican Women”
10:15-10:30pm	Henry Downes (Notre Dame University) – “Did Organized Labor Induce Labor? Unionization and the American Baby Boom”
10:30-10:45am	Neil Duzett (Texas A&M University), Sandra Black (Columbia University), Adriana Lleras-Muney (University of California, Los Angeles), Nolan Pope (University of Maryland), Joseph Price (BYU) – “Longevity and its Transmission Across Generations in the US”
10:45am-11:00am	Break
11:00-11:15am	Shanon Hsuan-Ming Hsu (University of Chicago) – “Coercive Growth: Forced Resettlement, Agglomeration, and Economic Development in Malaysia”
11:15m-11:30am	Dongkyu Yang (University of Colorado, Boulder) – “Time to Accumulate In the South”
11:30-11:45am	Paige Montrose (University of Pittsburgh) – “Without Deliberate Speed: The Effects of Southern Out-Migration on School Desegregation”
11:45am-12:00pm	Adrian Haws (Cornell University), Cache Ellsworth (University of Wisconsin- Madison), Ian Fillmore (Washington University in St. Louis), Joseph Price (BYU) – “The Long-Run Effects of Parental Wealth Shocks on Children”
12:00-1:45pm	Lunch
1:45-2:30pm	Ahmed Rahman (Lehigh University), Darrell J. Glaser (United States Naval Academy), Alexander McQuoid (United States Naval Academy) – “Vir Ingeniosus Vel Vir Bellicosus: A Century of Personnel Profiles from the United States Navy”
2:30-2:45pm	Break
2:45-3:30pm	Patrick Testa (Tulane University), Jhacova Williams (American University) – “Political Foundations of Racial Violence in the Post-Reconstruction South”
3:30-4:00pm	Extended Break
4:00-4:45pm	A.R. Shariq Mohammed (Northeastern University), Mindy Marks (Northeastern University) – “Persistence in Season of Birth: A New Measure of Black Intergenerational Mobility”
4:45-5:00pm	Break
5:00-5:45pm	Kris Mitchener (Santa Clara University), Jean Lacroix (Universite Paris-Saclay), Kim Oosterlinck (Université libre de Bruxelles) – “Domino Secessions: Evidence from the U.S.”
5:45pm	Travel to Dinner
6:15pm	Dinner

2023 Schedule (February 24-25)

Friday– Feb. 24

2:15-2:30pm	Introduction and Welcome
2:30-3:15pm	Taylor Jaworski (University of Colorado – Boulder), Erik Kimbrough (Chapman University), Nicole Saito (Northwestern University) – “How Important Are Cultural Frictions for Internal Migration? Evidence from the Nineteenth Century United States”
3:15-3:30pm	Break
3:30-4:15pm	Peter Nencka (Miami University), Alison Doxey (University of Chicago), Ezra Karger (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) – “The Democratization of Opportunity: The Effects of the U.S. High School Movement”
4:15-4:30pm	Break
4:30-5:15pm	Sarah Quincy (Vanderbilt University) and Chenzi Xu (Stanford University) – “Branch Banking and Local Shocks”
5:15-5:30pm	Break
5:30-6:15pm	Pawel Janas (Caltech) – “Lender of Last Resort and Local Economic Outcomes”
6:15pm	Dinner

Saturday – Feb. 25

8:15-9:00am	Breakfast
9:00-9:45am	Jeremie Cohen-Setton (International Monetary Fund), Egor Gornostay (Peterson Institute for International Economics) – “The Macroeconomic Effects of Government Consumption Expenditures in G7 Countries: Evidence from Historical Data on Forecast Errors”
9:45-10:00am	Break
10:00-10:20pm	Vitaliia Yaremko (University of California – Berkeley) – “The Long-Term Consequences of Blacklisting: Evidence From the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33”
10:20-10:40pm	Will Damron (Yale University) – “Gains from Factory Electrification: Evidence from North Carolina, 1905-1926”
10:40-11:00am	Break
11:00-11:20am	Will Cockriel (University of Chicago) – “Boots and Shoes: Long Run Impacts from Job Destruction”
11:20-11:40am	Yangkeun Yun (University of California – Los Angeles) – “Firm Dynamics in Common-Pool Resources: Measuring Externalities in the American Whaling Industry”
11:40-12:00pm	Sebastian Hager (University of Munich), Emilio Esguerra (University of Munich), Alexia Lochmann (Harvard University) – “Nations and Citizens: How Grievances Shape Identity”
12:00-1:45pm	Lunch
1:45-2:30pm	Haelim Anderson (FDIC) and Jin-Wook Chang (Federal Reserve Board) – “Labor Market Tightness during WWI and the Postwar Recession of 1920-1921”
2:30-2:45pm	Break
2:45-3:30pm	Aaron Phipps (United States Military Academy), Timothy Justicz (United States Military Academy), Joseph Price (BYU) – “More than Sheepskin: A Natural Experiment on College and Earnings”
3:30-4:00pm	Extended Break
4:00-4:45pm	Ethan Schmick (Marquette University), Daniel Jones (University of Pittsburgh) –“Reconstruction-Era Education and Long-Run Black-White Inequality”
4:45-5:00pm	Break
5:00-5:45pm	Hui Ren Tan (National University of Singapore) and Tianyi Wang (University of Toronto) – “McCarthyism, Media, and Political Repression: Evidence from the Hollywood Blacklist”
5:45pm	Travel to Dinner
6:15pm	Dinner

2022 Schedule (February 25-26)

Friday – Feb. 25

2:30-2:45pm	Introduction and Welcome
2:45-3:30pm	Kasey Buckles (University of Notre Dame), Joseph Price (BYU), and Zach Ward (Baylor University) – “Family Trees and Falling Apples: Intergenerational Mobility Estimates from U.S. Genealogy Data”
3:30-3:45pm	Break
3:45-4:30pm	Ezra Karger (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) – “The Long-Run Effect of Public Libraries on Children: Evidence from the Early 1900s”
4:30-4:45pm	Break
4:45-5:30pm	Javier Mejia (Stanford University) – “Social Networks and Entrepreneurship. Evidence from a Historical Episode of Industrialization”
5:30-5:45pm	Break
5:45-6:05pm	Jon Denton-Schneider (University of Michigan) – “Colonial Institutions, Marriage Markets, and HIV: Evidence from Mozambique”
6:05-6:25pm	Jacob Weber (University of California, Berkeley) and Matthew Suandi (University of California, Berkeley) – “Railroads of the Reich”
6:25pm	Dinner

Saturday – Feb. 26

8:30-9:15am	Breakfast
9:15-10:00am	Chris Meissner (University of California, Davis) and Michael Bordo (Rutgers University) – “Original Sin and the Great Depression”
10:00-10:15am	Break
10:15-11:00am	Kris Mitchener (Santa Clara University) and Eric Monnet (Paris School of Economics) “Central Bank Profitability and Selective Lender of Last Resort Policies”
11:00-11:15am	Break
11:15-11:35am	Katherine Hauck (University of Arizona) – “An Empirical Estimation of a Structural Option Value Model of Homesteading”
11:35-11:55am	Jennifer Kowalski (Stanford University), Ran Abramitzky (Stanford University), Santiago Pérez (University of California, Davis), and Joseph Price (BYU) – “Colleges and Upward Mobility in the US Over the Last Century”
11:55-1:25pm	Lunch
1:25-1:45pm	Jay Dhar (University of Arizona) – “The Diffusion of Automobiles and Motortrucks on American Farms in the 20th Century: The Impact of Last-Mile Road Access”
1:45-2:00pm	Break
2:00-2:45pm	Jonathan Rose (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago), Price Fishback (University of Arizona), Kenneth Snowden (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), and Thomas Storrs (University of Virginia) “New evidence on redlining by federal housing programs in the 1930s”
2:45-3:00pm	Break
3:00-3:45pm	Shariq Mohammed (Northeastern University) and Paul Mohnen (University of Pennsylvania) – “Black Economic Progress in the Jim Crow South: Evidence from Rosenwald Schools”
3:45-4:00pm	Break
4:00-4:45pm	Andreas Ferrara (University of Pittsburgh), Samuel Bazzi (UC San Diego), Martin Fiszbein (Boston University), Thomas Pearson (Boston University), and Patrick Testa (Tulane University) – “The Other Great Migration: White Southern Migrants and Right-wing Politics in the U.S.”
4:45-5:00pm	Break
5:00-5:45pm	Martha Bailey (University of California, Los Angeles) and Connor Cole (Office of Tax Administration) – “Reconciling the Evidence on Linking Errors in Historical Data”
5:45pm	Travel to Dinner
6:30pm	Dinner

2020 Schedule (February 21-22)

Friday, February 21

2:30-2:45pm	Introduction and Welcome
2:45-3:30pm	Charles Calomiris (Columbia University) and Elliot Oh (University of Maryland) - "Who Owned Citibank? Familiarity Bias and Business Network Influences on Stock Purchases, 1925-1929"
3:30-3:45pm	Break
3:45-4:30pm	Nicola Bianchi (Northwestern University) and Michela Giorcelli (University of California, Los Angeles) - "Not All Management Training Is Created Equal: Evidence from the Training Within Industry Program"
4:30-4:45pm	Break
4:45-5:30pm	Kirsten Wandschneider (Occidental College), Kris Mitchener (Santa Clara University), and Kevin O’Rourke (NYU Abu Dhabi) - "The Smoot-Hawley Trade War"
5:30-5:45pm	Break
5:45-6:05pm	Todd Messer (University of California, Berkeley) and Peter McCrory (University of California, Berkeley) - "Bank Networks, Credit Frictions, and Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. Cross-State Banking Deregulation"
6:05-6:25pm	Brian Marein (University of Colorado, Boulder) - "Economic Growth, Public Health, and the First Mortality Transition in the Tropics: Puerto Rico, 1923-1945"
6:25pm	Dinner

Saturday, February 22

8:30-9:15am	Breakfast
9:15-10:00am	Eric Edwards (North Carolina State University), Martin Fiszbein (Boston University), and Gary Libecap (University of California, Santa Barbara) - "Property Rights, Colonial Origins, and Differences in Agricultural Production in North and South America"
10:00-10:15am	Break
10:15-11:00am	Craig Palsson (Utah State University) - "A Whirligig of Revolutionary Presidents: Political Stability and Foreign Investment"
11:00-11:15am	Break
11:15am-11:35pm	Tianyi Wang (University of Pittsburgh) - "Political Impact of Opinion Leaders: Evidence from Father Coughlin"
11:35am-11:55pm	Laura Taylor (University of Arizona) - "American Indian Reservation Boundaries and Land Characteristics: A Spatial Analysis of Reservation Decline in the American West, 1880-1915"
11:55-1:25pm	Lunch
1:25-1:45pm	Mark Hup (University of California, Irvine) - "Corvée Labor and State Expansion in Colonial Indonesia"
1:45-2:00pm	Break
2:00-2:45pm	Maggie Jones (University of Victoria), Lisa Cook (Michigan State University), Trevon Logan (University of California, Santa Barbara), and David Rosé (Queens University) - "Competition and Discrimination in Public Accommodations: Evidence from the Green Books"
2:45-3:00pm	Break
3:00-3:45pm	Asaf Bernstein (University of Colorado, Boulder), Carola Frydman (Northwestern University), and Eric Hilt (Wellesley College) - "Asymmetric Information, Liquidity and Corporate Finance: Evidence from the Introduction of Credit Ratings"
3:45-4:00pm	Break
4:00-4:45pm	Stephan Luck (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Kristian Blickle (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), and Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton University) - "Micro-evidence from a system-wide financial meltdown: The German Crisis of 1931"
4:45-5:00pm	Break
5:00-5:45pm	Eugene White (Rutgers University) and Ellis Tallman (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland) - "Why Was There No Banking Panic in 1920-1921? The Federal Reserve Banks and the Recession"
5:45pm	Travel to Dinner
6:30pm	Dinner

2019 Schedule (February 22-23)

Friday, February 22

3:00-3:15pm	Introduction and Welcome
3:15-4:00pm	Katherine Eriksson (University of California-Davis), Marcella Alsan (Stanford University), and Gregory Niemesh (Miami University) – “The Rise and Fall of the Know-Nothing Party”
4:00-4:15pm	Break
4:15-5:00pm	Joseph Price (Brigham Young University) and Kasey Buckles (University of Notre Dame) – “Long-run Effects of Prohibition on Child Outcomes: Evidence from County-level Variation”
5:00-5:15pm	Break
5:15-6:00pm	Matthew Curtis (University of California-Davis) – “The Quantity and Quality of Pre-Industrial Children: Evidence from Québécois Twins”
6:00pm	Dinner

Saturday, February 23

8:30-9:15am	Breakfast
9:15-10:00am	Dan Bogart (University of California-Irvine) and Latika Chaudhary (Naval Postgraduate School) – “Extractive Institutions? Investor Returns to Indian Railway Companies in the Age of High Imperialism”
10:00-10:15am	Break
10:15-11:00am	Angela Vossmeyer (Claremont McKenna College), Sanjiv Das (Claremont McKenna College), and Kris Mitchener (Santa Clara University) – “Systemic Risk and the Great Depression”
11:00-11:15am	Break
11:15am-12:00pm	Marc Weidenmier (Chapman University), Gustavo Cortes (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Bryan Taylor (Global Financial Data) – “Bank Stocks and the Great Depression”
12:00-1:15pm	Lunch
1:15-2:00pm	Bryan Leonard (Arizona State University) and Douglas W. Allen (Simon Fraser University) – “Property Rights and Path Dependence: 19th Century Land Policy and Modern Economic Outcomes”
2:00-2:15pm	Break
2:15-3:00pm	Steven Smith (Colorado School of Mines) and Eric Alston (University of Colorado-Boulder) – “Development Derailed: Railroad Land Grants and Irrigation in the Western United States”
3:00-3:15pm	Break
3:15-4:00pm	Zhixian Lin (University of California-Davis) – “Does Human Capital Spillover Persist? Evidence from the Forced Migration By China's Send-down Policy”
4:00-4:15pm	Break
4:15-5:00pm	Taylor Jaworski (University of Colorado-Boulder) and W. Walker Hanlon (NYU Stern School of Business) – “Spillover Effects of IP Protection in the Interwar Aircraft Industry”
5:30pm	Dinner