Sascha O. Becker is Xiaokai Yang Chair of Business and Economics at Monash University, Melbourne, and part-time Professor at the University of Warwick, England. 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. 15485
published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2022, 86, 101471
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15119
published in: Australian Economic History Review, 2022, 62 (1), 2-25
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14120
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (3), 1–43
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13371
published in: A. Bisin, G. Federico (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Economics, London: Academic Press, 2021, 585-639
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13217
published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2022, 88 (3), 447 - 472
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13193
published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2020, 86(3): 259-290.
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