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Markus Nagler

Assistant Professor of Economics

 

Fields

Education

Innovation

Labor

  • Bio & CV
  • Current Papers
  • Mentoring and Online Teaching
  • Remote Tutoring
  • ICT and Innovation
  • Publications
  • Research in Progress
  • Workshops
  • Contact me

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  • Bio & CV
  • Current Papers
  • Mentoring and Online Teaching
  • Remote Tutoring
  • ICT and Innovation
  • Publications
  • Research in Progress
  • Workshops
  • Contact me
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    • Welcome!

      I am an assistant professor of economics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. I am also an affiliate member of the CESifo Research Network (Labor Economics), an associate member of the LASER Research Network at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and a fellow of the Schöller Research Center for Business and Society.

       

       

      You can find my CV here and my Google Scholar Profile here.

       

    • Peer Mentoring and Online Teaching Effectiveness

      Do peer mentors improve online education outcomes?

      Can Peer Mentoring Improve Online Teaching Effectiveness? An RCT During the COVID-19 Pandemic

      (with David Hardt and Johannes Rincke)

       

      Online delivery of higher education has taken center stage but is fraught with issues of student self-organization. We conducted an RCT to study the effects of remote peer mentoring at a German university that switched to online teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mentors and mentees met one-on-one online and discussed topics like self-organization and study techniques. We find positive impacts on motivation, studying behavior, and exam registrations. The intervention did not shift earned credits on average, but we demonstrate strong positive effects on the most able students. In contrast to prior research, effects were more pronounced for male students.

       

      AEARCTR-0005868, CESifo Working Paper No. 8671

       

      Current draft 

       

      R&R at Labour Economics

       

      Coverage: Press Release (German), Bayerischer Rundfunk (in German), The Education Exchange, Ökonomenstimme (in German)

       

    • Remote Tutoring in Higher Education

      Does small-group peer tutoring work in higher education?

      Tutoring in (Online) Higher Education

      (with David Hardt and Johannes Rincke)

       

      Demand for personalized online tutoring in higher education is growing but there is little research on its effectiveness. We conducted an RCT offering remote peer tutoring in micro- and macroeconomics at a German university teaching online due to the Covid-pandemic. Treated students met in small groups, in alternating weeks with and without a more senior student tutor. The treatment improved study behavior and increased contact to other students. Tutored students achieve around 30% more credits and a one grade level better GPA across treated subjects. Our findings suggest that the program reduced outcome inequality. We find no impacts on mental health.

       

      CESifo Working Paper No. 9555

       

      AEA RCT No. 7686

       

    • The Impact of ICT on Innovation

      Did access to BITNET promote innovation?

      ICT, Collaboration, and Innovation: Evidence from BITNET

      (with Kathrin Wernsdorf and Martin Watzinger)

       

      Does access to technologies that reduce information and communication costs increase innovation? We examine this question by exploiting the staggered adoption of BITNET across U.S. universities in the 1980s. BITNET, an early version of the Internet, enabled e-mail-based knowledge exchange and collaboration among academics. After the adoption of BITNET, university-connected inventors increase patenting substantially. The effects are driven by collaborative patents by new inventor teams. The patents induced by ICT are closely related to science. In contrast, we neither find an effect on patents not closely related to science nor on corporate inventors unconnected to universities.

       

      Short-listed for EPIP Young Scholar Award 2020

       

      Accepted at Journal of Public Economics

       

      CEPR Discussion Paper No. 17179

       

      Coverage: Ökonomenstimme (in German)

       

    • Publications

       

      Fostering the Diffusion of General Purpose Technologies: Evidence from the Licensing of the Transistor Patents 

      (with Monika Schnitzer and Martin Watzinger)

      Journal of Industrial Economics, forthcoming

      Coverage: VoxEU, FAU alexander (in German)

       

      Disclosure and Subsequent Innovation: Evidence from the Patent Depository Library Program 

      (with Jeffrey L. Furman and Martin Watzinger)

      American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 13(4): 239-270 (2021)

      Coverage: Brookings, Written Description, CATO Research Brief, VoxEU, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Report "Safeguarding the Bioeconomy", Matt Clancy's New Things Under the Sun, AEA Chart of the Week, Update in Matt Clancy's New Things Under the Sun

       

      How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs and the 1956 Consent Decree 

      (with Martin Watzinger, Thomas Fackler, and Monika Schnitzer)

      American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 12(4): 328-359 (2020)

      AEJ:Policy Best Paper Award 2021

      Coverage: YouTube-EEA, Vox, Latest Thinking, New York Times, The Register, The American Prospect, Center for American Progress, Wired, Gilbert: "Innovation Matters: Competition Policy for the High-Technology Economy", AEA Chart of the Week, FAU alexander (in German), ifo Schnelldienst (in German), Works in Progress

       

      Weak Markets, Strong Teachers: Recession at Career Start and Teacher Effectiveness 

      (with Marc Piopiunik and Martin R. West)

      Journal of Labor Economics 38(2): 453-500 (2020)

      Coverage: BBC News, Washington Post, Education Week, Elite Network of Bavaria (in German), Harvard GSE News, The 74, NBER Reporter: Education Program Report, National Council on Teacher Quality, The Economist, Education Next, The Education Exchange, Haaretz (in Hebrew)

       

      The Disciplinary Effect of Post-Grant Review: Causal Evidence from European Patent Opposition 

      (with Stefan Sorg)

      Research Policy 49(3): 103915 (2020)

       

      Education and Religious Participation: City-Level Evidence from Germany’s Secularization Period 1890-1930 

      (with Sascha O. Becker and Ludger Woessmann)

      Journal of Economic Growth 22(3): 273–311 (2017)

    • Selected Research in Progress

       

      Labor Mobility and the Productivity of Scientists

      (with Monika Schnitzer and Martin Watzinger)

       

      Classroom Peer Effects of Immigrants: Within-Student Evidence

      (with Anna Heusler)

       

      High-Pressure, High-Paying Jobs 

      (with Erwin Winkler and Johannes Rincke)

       

    • Workshop Organization

      Co-Organizer, 20th Bavarian Micro Day 2022

      Co-Organizer, FAU Applied Micro Research Workshop

      Co-Organizer, IAB-FAU Labor Reading Group

      Co-Organizer, CRC190 Workshop Future of Labor 2019

      Co-Organizer, EBE Summer Meeting 2016

    • Contact me

      You can reach me at markus.nagler _at_ fau.de

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