[3][4][2] He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2022, and is an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Growth.
[5][2] Born in Lübeck in 1968, Voth studied economics, history, and philosophy at the universities of Bonn and Freiburg from 1989 to 1991.
[2][6][7] He then spent a year as a visiting student at St Antony's College, Oxford, where he received an MSc in 1993.
[2][8] After spending a year as a doctoral student at the European University Institute in Florence, he graduated with a DPhil from Nuffield College, Oxford, in 1996.
[9] His most recent research is on state capacity,[10][11] long-run growth,[12] the persistence of culture, sovereign debt in historical perspective, the link between economic crisis and political violence[13][14] and the Great Depression and the German Interwar Economy.