D AVID L AGAKOS Curriculum Vitae January 2018 Department of Economics University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0508

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C URRENT A PPOINTMENTS Associate Professor of Economics, University of California San Diego, since 2016 Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, since 2017 Lead Academic for Ghana, International Growth Centre, since 2016 Co-Editor, Journal of Development Economics, since 2017 Associate Editor, Review of Economic Dynamics, since 2017

PAST A PPOINTMENTS Associate Editor, Journal of Development Economics, 2016-17 Associate Editor, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2014-17 Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2013-17 Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California San Diego, 2013-2016 Assistant Professor of Economics, Arizona State University, 2009-2013 Research Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 2008-2009 Assistant Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2001-2003

E DUCATION Ph.D. in Economics, University of California Los Angeles, 2008 M.A. in Economics, University of California Los Angeles, 2005 B.A. in Mathematics and Economics, University of Rochester, Magna Cum Laude, 2001

J OURNAL P UBLICATIONS / F ORTHCOMING PAPERS “Life-Cycle Human Capital Accumulation Across Countries: Lessons from U.S. Immigrants” with Benjamin Moll, Tommaso Porzio, Nancy Qian, and Todd Schoellman forthcoming in the Journal of Human Capital special issue honoring Gary Becker

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“Life-Cycle Wage Growth Across Countries” with Benjamin Moll, Tommaso Porzio, Nancy Qian and Todd Schoellman forthcoming in the Journal of Political Economy “How do Hours Worked Vary with Income? Cross-Country Evidence and Implications” with Alexander Bick and Nicola Fuchs-Schundeln ¨ American Economic Review, 2018, 108 (1): 170-199 “Explaining Cross-Country Productivity Differences in Retail Trade” Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 124 (2): 579-620 “Agricultural Productivity Differences Across Countries” with Douglas Gollin and Michael Waugh American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 2014, 104 (5): p. 165-70 “The Agricultural Productivity Gap” with Douglas Gollin and Michael E. Waugh Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014, 129 (2): p. 939-993 “Selection, Agriculture and Cross-Country Productivity Differences” with Michael E. Waugh American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (2): p. 948-980 “Which Workers Get Insurance Within the Firm?” with Guillermo Ordonez ˜ Journal of Monetary Economics, 2011, 58 (6): p. 632-645 “Inflation Inequality in the United States” with Bart Hobijn Review of Income and Wealth, 2005, 51 (4): p. 581-606 “Social Security and the Consumer Price Index for the Elderly” with Bart Hobijn Current Issues in Economics and Finance, 2003, 9 (5)

O THER P UBLICATIONS Comment on “Welfare and Distributional Implications of Shale Gas,” by Hausman and Kellogg Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2015

W ORKING PAPERS “Labor Market Conflict and the Decline of the Rust Belt” with Simeon Alder and Lee Ohanian

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“In Search of a Spatial Equilibrium in the Developing World” with Martina Kirchberger and Douglas Gollin “The Welfare Effects of Encouraging Rural-Urban Migration” with Mushfiq Mobarak and Michael Waugh “The Role of Energy Capital in Accounting for Africa’s Recent Growth Resurgence” with Stephie Fried “Rural Electrification, Structural Transformation and Migration: Evidence from Ethiopia” with Stephie Fried “Unemployment and Development” with Ying Feng and James Rauch

G RANTS AND AWARDS 2017

International Growth Centre Special Project Facility: “Guidance on Ghana’s ‘One District, One Factory’ Policy”

2017

International Growth Centre Grant on “Improving Tax Collection Capacity in the Developing World: Evidence from Local Government in Ghana,” with Anders Jensen

2016

International Growth Centre Grant on “Taxation, Misallocation and Development: Evidence from Pakistan,” with Ethan Ilzetzki

2016

UCSD Graduate Teaching Award

2015

International Growth Centre Grant on “Rural Electrification and Internal Migration in the Developing World,” with Stephie Fried

2014

International Growth Centre Grant on “Risk, Savings and Rural-Urban Migration,” with Mushfiq Mobarak and Michael Waugh

2011

International Growth Centre Grant on “The Agricultural Productivity Gap in Developing Countries,” with Michael Waugh

2008

Ettinger Prize for Best Research Paper by UCLA Economics PhD Student

2008

UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship

2007

Ettinger Prize for Best Research Paper by UCLA Economics PhD Student

2007

UCLA Regent’s Fellowship

2003-07

UCLA Economics Graduate Student Fellowship

2001

Simon Scholar Award, University of Rochester

2001

Phi Beta Kappa, University of Rochester

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S EMINAR AND C ONFERENCE P RESENTATIONS 2018

AEA meetings (Philadelphia); scheduled: Cornell, Edinburgh, Harvard/MIT, Rochester, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara

2017

Banco de M´exico, Chicago, Trinity College Dublin, UC Berkeley, UC Riverside, UNC Chapel Hill, Zurich; Edinburgh Conference on Structural Transformation, St. Louis Fed STLAR conference, West-Coast Search Conference

2016

Edinburgh, IFPRI Addis Ababa, IIES Stockholm, LSE, St. Andrews, St. Louis Fed, UC Irvine, UT Austin, Yale, Washington; Madrid Growth Conference, IGC Growth Week, SED (Toulouse)

2015

Columbia, Florida International, Princeton, San Francisco Fed, Stanford, UCLA, USC (Marshall), World Bank; Cannon Institute for Global Studies Conference (Tokyo), Frontiers of Macro Conference (Queens University), NBER Summer Institute Economic Growth Meeting)

2014

Brown, Chicago, LSE, Oxford, UC Riverside, USC; AEA Meetings

2013

Brown, Chicago, Houston, Laval, Ohio State, Richmond Fed, UC Berkeley, UCSD, UQAM, Wharton, Yale

2012

Arizona State, Chicago, Chicago Fed, Dartmouth, Frankfurt, Pennsylvania, UBC, UCLA, Warwick, Washington Univ./St. Louis Fed; NBER Summer Institute (Economic Growth Meeting), NBER Macro Across Time and Space Meeting, Roma Macro Junior Conference (Einaudi Institute), SED (Cyprus)

2011

Northwestern, Yale; NBER Summer Institute (Economic Growth Meeting), SED (Ghent), Conference on Culture and Growth (Munich)

2010

Arizona State, Notre Dame; CASEE (ASU) Conference on Economic Policy, USC (Marshall) Macroeconomics Conference

2009

Arizona State, Boston University, Minneapolis Fed, Ohio State; NBER Summer Institute (Economic Growth Meeting), SITE Conference on Macro and Micro Approaches to Development, Midwest Macro (Indiana), SED (Istanbul)

2008

Arizona State, Chicago (Booth), Federal Reserve Board, Iowa, Maryland, Minneapolis Fed, NYU (Stern), Pennsylvania, Rochester, UC Berkeley (Haas), UCLA, UCSD, Wharton, Yale; NBER Summer Institute (Latin America Meeting), Econometric Society (Pittsburgh), SED (Boston)

2007

Minneapolis Fed, UCLA; UCSB Conference on Latin American TFP, SED (Prague)

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D ISCUSSIONS 2016

“Loss of Skill During Unemployment and TFP Differences across Countries” by Victor Ortego-Marti, at California Macro Conference (Claremont McKenna)

2015

“Sources of Labor Productivity Change in Brazil” by Bazzi, Muendler and Rickey, at Cowles Conference on Macroeconomics, Development and International Trade

2015

“Welfare and Distributional Implications of Shale Gas,” by Hausman and Kellogg, for Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (Spring)

2014

“Agricultural Productivity and Structural Transformation: Evidence from Brazil” by Bustos, Caprettini and Ponticelli, at AEA Annual Meetings

2012

“The Elasticity of the Informal Sector to Taxes and Transfers” by Alonso and Leal, at ASU Macro Reunion Conference

2011

“Does Foreign Competition Spur Productivity: Evidence from Post WWII US Cement Manufacturing,” by Dunn, Klimek and Schmitz, at Cowles Foundation Conference on International Trade, Development, and Macroeconomics

2010

“Spatial Development” by Desmet and Rossi-Hansberg, at 2010 UCSB Conference on International Trade and Development

T EACHING E XPERIENCE PhD Courses: Core PhD Macroeconomics, UCSD, 2014-2017 Macroeconomics of Development, UCSD, 2014, 2017 Heterogeneity in Macroeconomics, UCSD, 2018 Economic Growth and Development, ASU 2010-2012

Masters Courses: Macroeconomics of Development, UCSD School of Global Policy and Strategy, 2015-2017

Undergraduate Courses: Economic Growth, UCSD, 2018 Intermediate Macroeconomics, UCSD, 2013-2014 Intermediate Macroeconomics, ASU, 2010-2012

P H .D. A DVISING In progress: Chen Liu (committee member), Ying Feng (co-chair), Daniela Vidart (chair), Shihan Xie (committee member), Emilien Gouin-Bonenfant (committee member), Olga Denislamova (chair), Yang Wang (committee member), Remi Levin (committee member), Tara Sullivan (chair) Completed (placement): UCSD: Jessie Wang (2017, Furman University), Erin Wolcott (2017, Middelbury College), Wenbin Wu (2017, Fudan University), Wei You (2017, NYU Postdoc), Gonzalo

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Valdes (2016), Stephie Fried (2015, Carleton College, now Arizona State); ASU: Kevin Donovan (2013, Notre Dame); Paul Schrek (2010, Minneapolis Fed)

U NDERGRADUATE A DVISING (placement) 2017: Shu Zhang, UCSD (Notre Dame Applied Statistics Masters Program), Chengyuan (Alex) He, UCSD (Economics PhD Program, University of Rochester) 2015: Patrick Kiernan, UCSD (Research Associate, San Francisco Fed; now Economics PhD Program, Minnesota); Spencer Cottam, UCSD (Statistician, SpaceX) 2014: Caleb Johnson, ASU (Princeton Economics Ph.D. program); Devin Keane, ASU (Johns Hopkins Economics Masters program); Kevin Nakolan, ASU (UC Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics Ph.D. program); 2012: Glenn Farley, ASU (ASU Economics Ph.D. program); Chenxin Liu, ASU (Wisconsin Economics Ph.D. program); 2011: Michael Guggisberg, ASU (UC Irvine Economics Ph.D. program); Lisa Starkman, ASU (UCLA Law School)

P ROFESSIONAL A CTIVITIES 2018

Co-chair, Program Committee, Society for Economic Dynamics Meetings (Mexico City), with Guillermo Ordonez ˜

2017-

Co-organizer, NBER Economic Growth Meeting with Ufuk Akcigit and Paco Buera

2017-

Co-organizer, Barcelona GSE Summer Form, Economic Growth and Fluctuations Group, with Kurt Mitman, Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis and Ludo Visschers

2015-

Co-organizer, NBER Macroeconomics Across Time and Space Meeting with Ufuk Akcigit, Satyajit Chatterjee, Jeremy Greenwood and Lee Ohanian

2014

Short-term visitor, Becker-Friedman Institute, University of Chicago

2014

Short-term visitor, International Growth Center, London School of Economics

2014

Program Committee, Econometric Society Winter Meetings

2013-

Associated Faculty, Policy Design and Evaluation Lab, UCSD

2013-15

Program Committee, Society for Economic Dynamics Meetings

2013

Short-term visitor, Cowles Foundation, Yale University

2013

Co-organizer, NBER Economic Growth Meeting, with Virgiliu Midrigan

2012

Co-organizer, ASU Quantitative Macroeconomics Conference with Roozbeh Hosseini, Natalia Ramondo and Todd Schoellman

2012-

Member, Human Capital and Markets Network Economic Opportunity Working Group, University of Chicago

2011

Short-term visitor, Cowles Foundation, Yale University

2010

Co-organizer, UCLA Alumni Conference, with Guillermo Ordonez ˜