August 2021 NICO VOIGTLANDER¨

Contact Information UCLA Anderson School of Management Voice: +1 (510)220-5552 (cell) 110 Westwood Plaza; Voice: +1 (310)794-6382 (office) C513 Entrepreneurs Hall E-mail: [email protected] Los Angeles, CA 90095-1481 Web: www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/∼nico/ USA

Personal Year of Birth: 1977, Citizenship: Germany, USA. Languages: German (native). English, Spanish, French, Italian (fluent). Catalan (basic)

Research Economic Growth and Development, Economic History, Political Economy, Trade and Interests Productivity

Positions Held University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Anderson School of Management Dean’s Term Chair in Management (July 2020 – ) Professor of Economics (July 2019 – ) Associate Professor (July 2016 – ) Assistant Professor (July 2008 – June 2016) University College Professorial Research Fellow in Economics (Sep 2019 – ) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Research Associate (2016 – ) Faculty Research Fellow (2011 – 2016) Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Research Fellow (2018 – ) Research Affiliate (2014 – 2018)

Visiting Harvard University Positions Visiting Professor, Economics Department (January-July 2017)

Education Universitat Pompeu Fabra, (Spain) PhD in Economics, May 2008 (summa cum laude) MSc in Economics, With Honors, June 2003 University of California, Berkeley Visiting Student Researcher, Economics Department (Sep 2007 - July 2008)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (MA) MSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering, June 2002 MSc in Technology and Policy, June 2002

Technische Universit¨atBerlin, (Germany) Undergraduate studies in Environmental Engineering and Economics

1 of 6 Editorial Associate Editor, American Economic Review (2019 – ) Service Associate Editor, Journal of the European Economic Association (2015 – 2020) Associate Editor, Journal of Development Economics (2016 – ) Associate Editor, Explorations in Economic History (2015 – 2018)

Publications Articles in Refereed Journals “Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers” (with S. Becker, I. Grosfeld, P. Grosjean and E. Zhuravskaya) [pdf] American Economic Review, 2020, 110(5): 1430-63.

“Exporting and Plant-Level Efficiency Gains: It’s in the Measure” (with A. Gar- cia) Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 127(4): 1777-1825. [pdf] “Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party in Weimar Ger- many, 1919-33” (with S. Satyanath and J. Voth) Journal of Political Econ- omy, 2017, 125(2): 478-526. [pdf] “Human Capital and Industrialization: Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment” (with M. Squicciarini). Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2015, 130(4): 1825- 1883. [pdf] “Nazi Indoctrination and Anti-Semitic Beliefs in Germany” (with J. Voth). Pro- ceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015, 112(26): 7931-7936. “Skill Bias Magnified: Intersectoral Linkages and White-Collar Labor Demand in U.S. Manufacturing.” Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96(3): 495- 513. [pdf] “How the West Invented Fertility Restriction” (with J. Voth). American Eco- nomic Review, 2013, 103(6): 2227-2264. [pdf] “The Three Horsemen of Riches: Plague, War and Urbanization in Early Modern ” (with J. Voth). Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80(2): 774-811. [pdf] “Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany” (with J. Voth). Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2012, 127(3): 1339-1392 [pdf] “Why England? Demographic Factors, Structural Change and Physical Capital Accumulation during the Industrial Revolution” (with J. Voth). Journal of Eco- nomic Growth 2006, 11(4): 319-361. [pdf]

Articles in Papers & Proceedings, etc. “Gifts of Mars: Warfare and Europe’s Early Rise to Riches” (with J. Voth). Jour- nal of Economic Perspectives, 2013, 27(4): 165-86. [pdf] “Married to Intolerance: Attitudes towards Intermarriage in Germany, 1900-2006” (with J. Voth). American Economic Review, P&P, 2013, 103(3): 79-85. [pdf] “Malthusian Dynamism and the Rise of Europe: Make War, not Love” (withJ. Voth). American Economic Review, P&P 2009, 99(2): 248-54. [pdf]

Other publications “Internationale Klimapolitik” (International Climate Policy) (with R. Schwarze et al.) Metropolis Verlag, 2000.

2 of 6 Working Papers Development, Political Economy, and Economic History:

“How Merchant Towns Shaped Parliaments: From the Norman Conquest of England to the Great Reform Act” (with C. Angelucci and S. Meraglia) [pdf] R&R at Amer- ican Economic Review

“Highway to Hitler” (with J. Voth) [pdf] Accepted at American Economic Jour- nal: Applied Economics

“Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Industrialization in .” (with R. Juh´asz and M. Squicciarini) [pdf] R&R at Journal of Political Economy

“Away from Home and Back: Coordinating (Remote) Workers in 1800 and 2020.” (with R. Juh´asz and M. Squicciarini) [pdf]

“History’s Masters: The Effect of European Monarchs on State Performance.” (withS. Ottinger) [pdf]

“Knowledge Elites and Modernization: Evidence from Revolutionary France” (withM. Squicciarini) [pdf]

Productivity, Growth and Development:

“Cities, Productivity, and Trade” (with A. Garcia-Marin, A. Potlogea, and Y. Yang) [pdf]

“Imported Inputs, Quality Complementarity, and Skill Demand” (with D. Saravia) [pdf]

“Input Diffusion and the Evolution of Production Networks” (with V. Carvalho) [pdf]

“Product-Level Efficiency and Core Competence in Multi-Product Plants” (withA. Garcia) [pdf]

Honors and Awards Fellowships NSF grant 1628866 “Firm Dynamics and Productivity Growth during the Industrial Revolution” (with M. Squicciarini and R. Juhasz), 2016-19 NSF grant 1757231 “Was the Black Death a Watershed? Measuring European Re- gional Inequality in the Very Long Run” (PI, supervising I. Nurutdinov’s Doctoral Dissertation Grant), 2018-19 Ziman Center Grant, 2015 Hellman Fellows Program, 2012-2013 Easton Technology Grant 2013, 2015 UCLA Cyber Grant, 2009, 2010, 2011 UCLA Price Center Grant German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) ˆ Doctoral Fellowship, 2005 -’08 ˆ Undergraduate and Graduate Fellowship, 1998-2004

3 of 6 ERP Fellowship, 2007 -’08 Dr. Peter Schaefer Fellowship, 2003 -’04 Dr. Juergen Ulderup Scholarship for Highly Gifted Engineers, 2000 -’01 Fulbright Full Grant (one out of 4 for Germany), 2000 -’01 Other Awards American Economic Review – Excellence in Refereeing Award, 2017

Professional Referee Activities American Economic Review, American Economic Review: Insights, AEJ: Applied Economics, AEJ: Macroeconomics, AEJ: Applied Economics, Econometrica, Eco- nomic Journal, Economic Inquiry, European Review of Economic History, Interna- tional Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Economic His- tory, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Human Capital, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Macroe- conomic Dynamics, National Science Foundation, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics, Review of Economic Studies, Science

Conferences and Invited Talks 2021 (invited:) UC Berkeley, Brown Annual Growth Conference, Conference “Political Economy of Development and Conflict” in Barcelona, University of Oslo, University of Gothenburg, Stockholm University, Pompeu Fabra, Armenian Economic Associ- ation (keynote) 2020 Harvard Kennedy School, Armenian Economic Association 2019 Chicago Harris, Georgetown University, Northwestern University, ASREC Lund (keynote) 2018 Chicago Booth, Simon Fraser, UBC, UCL, NYU, NBER POL Meeting, Chicago Har- ris, Barcelona GSE, EEA-ESEM (invited session), Loyola Marymount Uni- versity, Boston University, HEC Montreal, Universit´ede Montr´eal,Harvard PIEP Conference (discussant) 2017 Harvard (Government), NYU Stern, Harvard (Economics), Boston University, Brown University, NBER Political Economy Group (discussant), Brown Conference on Long-run growth, Queen Mary University, Warwick, NBER Summer Institute (Po- litical Economy Group group), EEA-ESEM (invited session), Yale, Bocconi, Sci- encesPo, UPenn, Harvard PIEP Conference 2016 Northwestern University Conflict and Cooperation conference, Copenhagen Busi- ness School, Brown University Growth Theory Conference, Central Bank of Chile, Barcelona GSE Summer Forum, NBER Summer Institute PE Group (discussant), Northwestern University, Dartmouth Tuck

4 of 6 2015 SED Warsaw (member of the Program Committee), NBER EFJK Growth Group, NBER Cultural Economics (discussant), Stanford, FGV Sao Paulo, PUC-Rio, SOFI Stockholm, University of Copenhagen, University of Southern Denmark, Barcelona GSE Summer Forum, NBER Summer Institute PE Group (discussant), WEHC Ky- oto, Chicago Booth, Yale, [scheduled:] Berkeley, Northwestern, NYU 2014 IPEG Barcelona, UC Louvain, KU Leuven, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Prince- ton University, Brown University, IMT Lucca, Venice conference on Great Diver- gence, SciencesPo, NBER Summer Institute (Macroeconomics and Productivity group), Northwestern University, UC Davis, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Williams College Conference on Historical Persistence, Washington Area Seminar in Economic History, Munich workshop on Persistence in Economic History, Wharton 2013 AEA meetings (San Diego), UC Irvine, University of Munich, London School of Economics, CREI (Barcelona), Queens College, FREIT conference at University of Virginia, University of Oklahoma, Columbia University, UC San Diego 2012 AEA meetings (Chicago), Sciences Po (), University of Illinois – Urbana Cham- paign, Bocconi University, University of Cologne, University of Zurich, Arizona State University, Warwick, London Business School 2011 Yale University, Chicago Booth, NBER Cultural Economics Meeting, University of Warwick, Royal Economic Society, Loyola Marymount University, New York Uni- versity, University of Zurich, University of Houston 2010 NBER Culture and Institutions Workshop (discussant), University of Washington, NBER Summer Institute, SED Montreal (invited session), EIEF Rome, University of Naples Parthenope, University of Cologne, University of Southern California, New York University, University of British Columbia, NBER Economic Growth Workshop (discussant) 2009 NBER Political Economy Workshop (discussant), EEA/ESAM Barcelona, SED Is- tanbul, UC Santa Cruz, 2008 Conference ”From Rags to Riches” – CEPR and CREI. Co-organizer, Northwestern University, UC Davis, Minnesota Workshop in Macroeconomic Theory, UCLA IIES Stockholm, Collegio Carlo Alberto (Torino), University of Mannheim, Ente Ein- audi Institute, Rome, University of Zurich, CEMFI Madrid, University of Alicante, Federal Reserve Board 2007 UC Berkeley, Universitat Pompeu Fabra 2006 EEA-ESEM Conference in Vienna, University of Mannheim, London School of Eco- nomics, German National Merit Foundation

5 of 6 Teaching Courses at UCLA Anderson: Managerial Economics 405 (MBA Core Course) ˆ Winter quarter 2013, ’14, ’15, ’16, ’17, ’18. FEMBA, 2 sections, FEMBA Flex 1 section ˆ Winter quarter 2009, ’10, ’11. FEMBA, 2/3 sections International Business Economics 205A ˆ Spring term 2012. ˆ Fall term 2009, ’10. Course at Harvard University: The Political Economy of Economic Development (PhD course) ˆ Spring 2017 Courses at Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Review in Math and Statistics, PhD preparatory course (instructor). ˆ September 2005 and 2006. Microeconomics I, PhD course (TA) ˆ Fall term 2004. Growth and Development I, PhD course (TA) ˆ Spring term 2005. ˆ Spring term 2006. Economic Growth, UPF. PhD course (TA) ˆ Spring term 2007. Desarollo Economico, Undergraduate course (in Spanish, TA). ˆ Spring term 2007.

Other McKinsey & Company, Germany Employment Summer Associate 2003. Military Service, Tauberbischofsheim, Germany Served in the German Artillery. July 1996 - April 1997.

Other Summer Schools Activities Quantum physics and philosophy (Rot a.d. Rot, Germany). August 2004. Communication (Chorin, Germany). August 2001. Creative writing (Alpbach, Austria). September 1999. Sustainable development (La Villa, ). September 1998. Sports Soccer: From early childhood on to present. Played in semi-professional teams. Competitive Athletics: won several regional and national awards in Germany Basketball and Tennis Interests in Literature, Philosophy and Theater

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