CESifo Research Network Fellow

Sascha O. Becker

Monash Business School
Department of Economics
900 Dandenong Rd, 3145, Caulfield East, Australia, VIC

Affiliated Research Network Area

Labor Economics

Fields of Interest

  • Labour and Demographic Economics

Other Activities

ifo Institute Research Professor - ifo Center for the Economics of Education, Part-time Professor, University of Warwick, UK

CESifo Working Papers

From the Death of God to the Rise of Hitler

Sascha O. Becker, Hans-Joachim Voth
CESifo, Munich, 2023
CESifo Working Paper No. 10730

Religion and Growth

Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, Ludger Woessmann
CESifo, Munich, 2023
CESifo Working Paper No. 10688

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

Sascha O. Becker, Sharun Mukand, Ivan Yotzov
CESifo, Munich, 2022
CESifo Working Paper No. 9884

Forced Displacement in History: Some Recent Research

Sascha O. Becker
CESifo, Munich, 2022
CESifo Working Paper No. 9604

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

Sascha O. Becker, Volker Lindenthal, Sharun Mukand, Fabian Waldinger
CESifo, Munich, 2021
CESifo Working Paper No. 8916

Jesus Speaks Korean: Christianity and Literacy in Colonial Korea

Sascha O. Becker, Cheongyeon Won
CESifo, Munich, 2021
CESifo Working Paper No. 8824

Religion in Economic History: A Survey

Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, Ludger Woessmann
CESifo, Munich, 2020
CESifo Working Paper No. 8365

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

Erich Battistin, Sascha O. Becker, Luca Nunziata
CESifo, Munich, 2020
CESifo Working Paper No. 8286

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

Sascha O. Becker, Francesco Cinnirella
CESifo, Munich, 2020
CESifo Working Paper No. 8277

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

Sascha O. Becker, Lukas Mergele, Ludger Woessmann
CESifo, Munich, 2020
CESifo Working Paper No. 8164

The Political Economy of the Prussian Three-Class Franchise

Sascha O. Becker, Erik Hornung
CESifo, Munich, 2019
CESifo Working Paper No. 7801

Discrimination in hiring based on potential and realized fertility: evidence from a large-scale field experiment

Sascha Becker, Ana Fernandes, Doris Weichselbaumer
CESifo, Munich, 2019
CESifo Working Paper No. 7624

Who Voted for Brexit? Individual and Regional Data Combined

Eleonora Alabrese, Sascha Becker, Thiemo Fetzer, Dennis Novy
CESifo, Munich, 2018
CESifo Working Paper No. 7193

The Impact of Public Employment: Evidence from Bonn

Sascha Becker, Stephan Heblich, Daniel Sturm
CESifo, Munich, 2018
CESifo Working Paper No. 6841

Who Voted for Brexit? A Comprehensive District-Level Analysis

Sascha Becker, Thiemo Fetzer, Dennis Novy
CESifo, Munich, 2017
CESifo Working Paper No. 6438

Social Cohesion, Religious Beliefs, and the Effect of Protestantism on Suicide

Sascha O Becker, Ludger Wößmann
CESifo, Munich, 2015
CESifo Working Paper No. 5288

Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany

Sascha Becker, Marc-Andreas Muendler
CESifo, Munich, 2014
CESifo Working Paper No. 5122

Education Promoted Secularization

Sascha Becker, Markus Nagler, Ludger Wößmann
CESifo, Munich, 2014
CESifo Working Paper No. 4684

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

Sascha Becker, Ludger Wößmann
CESifo, Munich, 2013
CESifo Working Paper No. 4115

Do Entrepreneurs Matter?

Sascha Becker, Hans K. Hvide
CESifo, Munich, 2013
CESifo Working Paper No. 4088

iPEHD - The ifo Prussian Economic History Database

Sascha Becker, Francesco Cinnirella, Erik Hornung, Ludger Wößmann
CESifo, Munich, 2012
CESifo Working Paper No. 3904

Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide

Sascha Becker, Ludger Wößmann
CESifo, Munich, 2011
CESifo Working Paper No. 3499

A Gift is not Always a Gift: Gift Exchange in a Voucher Experiment

Sascha Becker, Dolores Messer, Stefan C. Wolter
CESifo, Munich, 2011
CESifo Working Paper No. 3488

Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia

Sascha Becker, Francesco Cinnirella, Ludger Wößmann
CESifo, Munich, 2011
CESifo Working Paper No. 3430

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

Sascha Becker, Katrin Boeckh, Christa Hainz, Ludger Wößmann
CESifo, Munich, 2011
CESifo Working Paper No. 3392