Dr. Dietrich Vollrath
Professor
Office: 201C McElhinney Hall
Phone: 713-743-3806
E-mail: devollrath@uh.edu
Website: https://growthecon.com
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Biographical Summary
Dietrich Vollrath has been a member of the department since 2005. His research focuses
on economic growth, and has appeared in the Review of Economic Studies, Journal of
Economic Growth, Journal of Development Economics, and the American Economic Journal:
Macroeconomics, among others. He is a past recipient of the Ross Lence Teaching Award,
and is the co-author of a popular textbook on economic growth. For more details on
his current research, please visit his personal website (https://growthecon.com).
Education
Research Interests
- Economic growth and development
- Agricultural economics
Teaching
- Economic growth (graduate and undergraduate)
- Graduate macroeconomics
Selected Publications
- Fully Grown: Why a Stagnant Economy is a Sign of Success. University of Chicago Press. 2020.
- Introduction to Economic Growth, with Charles I. Jones. W.W. Norton and Company. 2013.