Markus Nagler - Assistant Professor of Economics on Strikingly

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) and an associate member of the LASER Research Network at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

My main fields are labor economics, education economics, and the economics of innovation.

I obtained my PhD and my undergraduate degree in economics from LMU Munich and a Master's in economics from University College London. During the last years, I have visited the NBER and BU's Questrom School of Business, the MIT Department of Economics, and the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University.

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

Coverage: Press Release (German), Bayerischer Rundfunk (in German), The Education Exchange, Ökonomenstimme (in German)
The Impact of ICT on Innovation
Did access to BITNET promote innovation?

ICT, Collaboration, and Science-Based Innovation: Evidence from BITNET
(with Kathrin Wernsdorf and Martin Watzinger)

Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) 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 exclusively science-related and stem from fields where knowledge can be codified easily. In contrast, we neither find an effect on patents not building on science nor on inventors unconnected to universities.

Short-listed for EPIP Young Scholar Award 2020

R&R at Journal of Public Economics

CESifo Working Paper No. 8646

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

Disclosure and Subsequent Innovation: Evidence from the Patent Depository Library Program
(with Jeffrey L. Furman and Martin Watzinger)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, forthcoming
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

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

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)

Graduating in Times of Covid-19
(with Katharina Adler, David Hardt, and Johannes Rincke)

High-Pressure, High-Paying Jobs
(with Erwin Winkler and Johannes Rincke)

Tutoring in (Online) Higher Education
(with David Hardt and Johannes Rincke) AEA RCT No. 7686
Teaching

Lectures
Economics of Innovation (Summer 2020 & 2021, MSc Economics, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Labor Economics (Winter 2021, BSc International Economic Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Labor Markets in the Knowledge Economy (Summer 2019, MSc Economics, LMU Munich; Winter 2021, MSc Economics, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Panel- and Evaluation Methods (Winter 2019/20, MSc Economics, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)

Tutorials
Microeconomics I (Winter 2010/11, Summer 2011, Winter 2018/19, BSc Economics, LMU Munich)
Microeconomics (Winter 2017/18, Summer 2018, MSc Economics, LMU Munich)
Managerial Economics I (Winter 2013/14 to Winter 2015/16, MSc in Business Economics, LMU Munich)
Mathematical Methods for Economists (Summer 2012, BSc Economics, LMU Munich)
The Economics of Science and Innovation (Summer 2018, MSc Economics, LMU Munich)

Seminars
Economics of Human Capital (Summer 2021, MSc Economics, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Experiments and Quasi-Experiments in Labor Economics (Winter 2019/20, Minor Economics, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Gender Economics (Winter 2015/16, BSc Economics, LMU Munich)
Innovation and the Labor Market (Winter 2019 & 2020, BSc Economics, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
The Economics of Science and Innovation (Winter 2014/15, MSc Economics, LMU Munich)
The Microeconomics of the Knowledge Economy (Winter 2018/19, BSc Economics, LMU Munich)

Theses
Supervision of multiple Bachelor's and Master's theses both in labor economics and the economics of innovation
Other activities

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

Welcome!

Peer Mentoring and Online Teaching Effectiveness

Do peer mentors improve online education outcomes?

The Impact of ICT on Innovation

Did access to BITNET promote innovation?

Publications

Selected Research in Progress

Teaching

Other activities

Contact me

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