Professor Sumner La Croix (UH Economics, UHERO, and UH Global Health and Population Studies) and Professor Ann Carlos (University of Colorado Economics) have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to support two annual Cliometrics Conferences in 2012 and 2014 and a World Congress of Cliometrics in 2013. The 2012 annual conference will be held in Tucson, Arizona and is co-sponsored by the University of Arizona, while the 2014 Annual Conference will be held in Clemson, South Carolina and is co-sponsored by Clemson University. The 2013 World Congress of Cliometrics will be held in Honolulu, Hawaii and is co-sponsored by the University of Hawaii.
Cliometrics is the interdisciplinary application of theory and quantitative methods to the study of economic history.
