Research Professor in the department Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute
Fellow of the CESifo Research Network
University of Warwick Department of Economics UK - Coventry CV4 7AL
Sascha O. Becker collaborates with staff in the Department for Human Capital and Innovation on research projects in educational economics, concentrating on the econometric analysis of the importance of education in historical developmental trends.
Establishment of a leading international centre of excellence examining the effects of education on longterm economic development
Foreign Direct Investments of German companies and the impact on domestic labour markets
Creation, diffusion and impact of sustainability innovations – further methodological development of the analytical instruments, empirical implementation and the relationship to selected environmental- and innovation-policy fields of action and instruments
Becker, Sascha O. (with Samuel Bentolila, Ana Fernandes and Andrea Ichino), "Youth Emancipation and Perceived Job Insecurity of Parents and Children", Journal of Population Economics, 23 (3), 2010, 1047-1071
Becker, Sascha O. (with Peter Egger and Tobias Seidel), "Common political culture: Evidence on regional corruption contagion", European Journal of Political Economy (EJPE), 25 (3), 2009
Becker, Sascha O. (with Ludger Wößmann), "Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History", Quarterly Journal of Economics 124 (2), 2009, also published as: CESifo Working Paper Nr. 1987, 2007 ( Abstract / Download )
Becker, Sascha O. (with Ludger Wößmann), "Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia", Scandinavian Journal of Economics 110 (4), 2008, 777–805 also published as: CESifo Working Paper Nr. 2414, 2008 ( Abstract / Download )
Becker, Sascha O. (with Samuel Bentolila, Ana Fernandes and Andrea Ichino), "Income Insecurity and Youth Emancipation: A Theoretical Approach", The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 8 (1), Contributions, Article 19, 2008 ( More Information )
Becker, Sascha O. (with Marc-Andreas Muendler), "The Effect of FDI on Job Separation", The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 8 (1), Advances, Article 8, 2008 ( More Information )
Becker, Sascha O. (with Mathias Hoffmann), "Intra-and International Risk-Sharing in the Short Run and the Long Run", European Economic Review 50 (3), 2006, 777-806
Becker, Sascha O., "Introducing Time-to-Educate in a Job Search Model", Bulletin of Economic Research 58 (1), 2006, 61-72
Becker, Sascha O. (with Karolina Ekholm, Robert Jäckle and Marc-Andreas Muendler), "Location Choice and Employment Decisions: A Comparison of German and Swedish Multinationals", Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) 141 (4), 2005, 693-731
Becker, Sascha O. (with Robert Jäckle and Marc-Andreas Muendler), "Kehren deutsche Firmen ihrer Heimat den Rücken? - Ein Bericht über Ausländische Direktinvestitionen deutscher Unternehmen", ifo Schnelldienst 58 (1), 2005 ( Abstract / Download )
Becker, Sascha O. (with Robert Fenge), "Gerechtigkeit und Effizienz nachgelagerter Studiengebühren", ifo Schnelldienst 58 (2), 2005 ( Abstract / Download )
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