Sascha O. Becker

Research Fellow

University of Warwick

s.o.becker@warwick.ac.uk

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Sascha O. Becker is Professor at the University of Warwick, England, and Xiaokai Yang Chair of Business and Economics at Monash University. Previously, he held positions at Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich and at the University of Stirling, Scotland.

He studied Economics at the Universities of Bonn, Germany, and at the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE) in Paris, France. He obtained his Ph.D. at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence in 2001. In Spring 2000, he was a visiting scholar at the Center for Labor Economics at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB). In 2006, he spent 7 months at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD). During 2014/15 and 2018 he was a Visiting Professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management.

His research has appeared in international journals, including the American Sociological Review, the
Quarterly Journal of Economics and the American Economic Review.

He joined IZA in March 2000 as a Research Affiliate and became a Research Fellow in December 2002.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17747

Religion and Economic Development: Past, Present, and Future

Sascha O. Becker, Amma Panin, Steven Pfaff, Jared Rubin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17651

Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions: A Practitioner's Guide and a Stata Package

Sascha O. Becker, P. David Boll, Hans-Joachim Voth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16538

From the Death of God to the Rise of Hitler

Sascha O. Becker, Hans-Joachim Voth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16494

Religion and Growth

Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2024, 62 (3), 1094–1142.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15485

Persecution, Pogroms and Genocide: A Conceptual Framework and New Evidence

Sascha O. Becker, Sharun Mukand, Ivan Yotzov

published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2022, 86, 101471

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15119

Forced Displacement in History: Some Recent Research

Sascha O. Becker

published in: Australian Economic History Review, 2022, 62 (1), 2-25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14419

The Global COVID-19 Student Survey: First Wave Results

published in: Covid Economics, 2021, 79, 152-217

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14120

Persecution and Escape: Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany

Sascha O. Becker, Volker Lindenthal, Sharun Mukand, Fabian Waldinger

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (3), 1–43

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13371

Religion in Economic History: A Survey

Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, Ludger Woessmann

published in: A. Bisin, G. Federico (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Economics, London: Academic Press, 2021, 585-639

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13217

More Choice for Men? Marriage Patterns after World War II in Italy

Erich Battistin, Sascha O. Becker, Luca Nunziata

published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2022, 88 (3), 447 - 472

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13193

Prussia Disaggregated: The Demography of its Universe of Localities in 1871

Sascha O. Becker, Francesco Cinnirella

published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2020, 86 (3), 259-290.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13032

The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism

Sascha O. Becker, Lukas Mergele, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2020, 34 (2), 143-171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12308

Discrimination in Hiring Based on Potential and Realized Fertility: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

Sascha O. Becker, Ana Fernandes, Doris Weichselbaumer

published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 59, 139–152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11255

The Impact of Public Employment: Evidence from Bonn

Sascha O. Becker, Stephan Heblich, Daniel M. Sturm

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 122, article 103291

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8016

Education Promoted Secularization

Sascha O. Becker, Markus Nagler, Ludger Woessmann

published as ''Education and Religious Participation: City-Level Evidence from Germany's Secularization Period 1890-1930' in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2017, 22 (3), 273-311

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7151

Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties

Sascha O. Becker, Ludger Woessmann

published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 539-544

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7146

Do Entrepreneurs Matter?

Sascha O. Becker, Hans K. Hvide

published as 'Entrepreneur Death and Startup Performance' in: Review of Finance, 2021, 26 (1), 163-185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6829

iPEHD: The ifo Prussian Economic History Database

Sascha O. Becker, Francesco Cinnirella, Erik Hornung, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Historical Methods, 2014, 47(2), 57-66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5773

Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide

Sascha O. Becker, Ludger Woessmann

published as 'Social Cohesion, Religious Beliefs, and the Effect of Protestantism on Suicide 'in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100(3), 377-391

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5584

The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy

Sascha O. Becker, Katrin Boeckh, Christa Hainz, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (590), 40-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4557

The Trade-off between Fertility and Education: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition

Sascha O. Becker, Francesco Cinnirella, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2010, 15 (3), 177–204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4556

Catch Me If You Can: Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution

Sascha O. Becker, Erik Hornung, Ludger Woessmann

published as 'Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution' in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2011, 3 (3), 92-126