Mountain West Economic History Conference Schedule

2026 Schedule (February 20-21)

Distinguished Chairs: Price Fishback (University of Arizona), Kris Mitchener (Santa Clara University), Ross Peterson (Utah State University), Melissa Thomasson (Miami University), Randall Walsh (University of Pittsburgh), Eugene White (Rutgers University)

Cliometric Society Conference Representative: Melinda Miller (Virginia Tech)

Friday– Feb. 20

1:00-1:15pm	Introduction and Welcome
1:15-2:00pm	Michela Giorcelli (University of California, Los Angeles), Jacopo Ballabio, Claudio Labanca – “Productivity and Knowledge Transfer: Evidence from Prisoner Employment”
2:00-2:15pm	Break
2:15-3:00pm	Walker Hanlon (Northwestern University) – “Constituent-Representative Interaction Outside of Elections: Theory and Evidence from the Early U.K. Women’s Rights Movement”
3:00-3:15pm	Break
3:15-4:00pm	Felipe Carrera (Reed College), Francisco Arroyo Marioli (World Bank), Gary Richardson (University of California, Irvine) – “Financial Networks, Liquidity, and Central Banks: Theory and Evidence from the Fed’s Founding”
4:00-4:30pm	Extended Break
4:30-5:15pm	Edward Kim (University of Michigan) and Haelim Anderson (Andersen Institute) “The Effect of Enhanced Supervision on Banking Stability”
5:15-5:30pm	Break
5:30-6:15pm	Sarah Quincy (Vanderbilt University) and Daniela Vidart (University of Connecticut) – “Managing the Great Depression”
6:15pm	Dinner

Saturday – Feb. 21

8:00-9:45am	Breakfast
8:45-9:30am	Ricardo Pique (Texas A&M University) and Jean Lacroix (Université Paris-Saclay) – “Des notres? The Political Effects of Hosting Internal Evacuees”
9:30-9:45am	Break
9:45-10:00pm	Alison Doxey (University of Chicago) – “How Much Do Cash Transfers Compensate Children for a Father’s Injury or Death?”
10:00-10:15pm	Harrison Chang (University of Toronto) – “Economic Depression and Union Formation: Evidence From the Panic of 1873”
10:15-10:30am	Justin Eloriaga (Emory University) and Caroline Fohlin (Emory University) – “Panic, Gold, and Market Relief: Evidence from Narrative SVARs, 1890–1927”
10:30-10:45am	Tyler Schumacher (Vanderbilt University) – “Hours Worked and Earnings Inequality Over Time”
10:45am-11:00am	Break
11:00-11:15am	Yiyu Xing (University of California, Los Angeles) – “Public Data Infrastructure and Agricultural Development: Historical Evidence from Soil Mapping”
11:15m-11:30am	Jillian Zirnhelt (University of Pittsburgh) – “The Act of July 12, 1870, National Banknote Expansion, Money Creation, and the Founding of the Greenback Party”
11:30-11:45am	Chris de Mena (University of California, Davis) – "The Age of Innocence: Impacts of Early Age of Consent Laws"
11:45am-12:00pm	Danielle Graves Williamson (Boston University) and Peter Nencka (Miami University) – “The Other Klan: Women and the War on Schools”
12:00-1:45pm	Lunch
1:45-2:30pm	Vivek Moorthy (Florida State University) – “Within the Calculus of Conscious Choice: Industrialization, Religion, and Fertility Decline in Early 1800s France”
2:30-2:45pm	Break
2:45-3:30pm	Zhihao Xu (Tsinghua University), Peiyuan Li (Duke Kunshan University), Ke Rong (Tsinghua University), Sicheng Zhao (Tsinghua University) – “Property over Loyalty”
3:30-4:00pm	Extended Break
4:00-4:45pm	Peter Z. Lin (Western Kentucky University) and Giovanni Peri (University of California, Davis) – “How the 1942 Japanese Exclusion Impacted U.S. Agriculture”
4:45-5:00pm	Break
5:00-5:45pm	Erick Gong (Middlebury College) – “Power of the Pulpit: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement”
6:00pm	Dinner