Past Conference Schedules
See the following schedules from past years' Mountain West Ecomomics History Conferences.
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 |
