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Monash University - Caulfield Campus: Caulfield East, VIC, AU

2019-08-01 to present | Professor and Xiaokai Yang Chair of Business and Economics (Economics)
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University of Warwick: Coventry, Coventry, GB

2010-08-01 to present | Professor (Economics)
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University of Stirling: Stirling, Stirling, GB

2008-05-01 to 2010-07-31 | Professor (Economics)
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen: Munchen, Bayern, DE

2002-01-01 to 2008-04-01 | Wissenschaftlicher Assistent (Economics)
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European University Institute: Fiesole, Toscana, IT

1997 to 2001 | PhD (Economics)
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Conquering Korea for Jesus: Protestant missionaries, local churches, and literacy in Colonial Korea

Labour Economics
2024-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102618
Contributors: Sascha O. Becker; Cheongyeon Won
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Persecution, pogroms and genocide: A conceptual framework and new evidence

Explorations in Economic History
2022-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2022.101471
Contributors: Sascha O. Becker; Sharun Mukand; Ivan Yotzov
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Forced displacement in history: Some recent research

Australian Economic History Review
2022-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/aehr.12237
Contributors: Sascha O. Becker
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The impact of public employment: Evidence from Bonn

Journal of Urban Economics
2021-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2020.103291
Contributors: Sascha O. Becker; Stephan Heblich; Daniel M. Sturm
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The Political Economy of the Prussian Three-Class Franchise

The Journal of Economic History
2020-12-28 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/S0022050720000443
Contributors: Sascha O. Becker; Erik Hornung
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Multiplex Network Ties and the Spatial Diffusion of Radical Innovations: Martin Luther’s Leadership in the Early Reformation

American Sociological Review
2020-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/0003122420948059
Contributors: Sascha O. Becker; Yuan Hsiao; Steven Pfaff; Jared Rubin
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Prussia disaggregated: the demography of its universe of localities in 1871

Journal of Demographic Economics
2020-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/dem.2020.12
Part of ISSN: 2054-0892
Part of ISSN: 2054-0906
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Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers

American Economic Review
2020-05-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1257/aer.20181518
Part of ISSN: 0002-8282
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The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism

Journal of Economic Perspectives
2020-05-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1257/jep.34.2.143
Part of ISSN: 0895-3309
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Who voted for Brexit? Individual and regional data combined

European Journal of Political Economy
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2018.08.002
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2-s2.0-85053015679
Contributors: Alabrese, E.; Becker, S.O.; Fetzer, T.; Novy, D.
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Consequences of forced migration: A survey of recent findings

Labour Economics
2019-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2019.02.007
Contributors: Sascha O. Becker; Andreas Ferrara
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Discrimination in hiring based on potential and realized fertility: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment

Labour Economics
2019-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2019.04.009
Contributors: Sascha O. Becker; Ana Fernandes; Doris Weichselbaumer
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Religion, Division of Labor, and Conflict: Anti-Semitism in Germany over 600 Years

American Economic Review
2019-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1257/aer.20170279
Part of ISSN: 0002-8282
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Effects of EU Regional Policy: 1989-2013

Regional Science and Urban Economics
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2017.12.001
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2-s2.0-85042387514
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Egger, P.H.; von Ehrlich, M.
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Erratum: Who voted for Brexit? A comprehensive district-level analysis [Economic Policy, 32, (2017) (4)] DOI: 10.1093/epolic/eix012

Economic Policy
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/epolic/eix017
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2-s2.0-85044645042
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Fetzer, T.; Novy, D.
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Social Cohesion, Religious Beliefs, and the Effect of Protestantism on Suicide

The Review of Economics and Statistics
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00708
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What were the determining voting patterns of the brexit referendum?,Welche Abstimmungsmuster liegen dem Brexit- Referendum zugrunde?

Wirtschaftsdienst
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10273-018-2275-x
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2-s2.0-85046143654
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Fetzer, T.; Novy, D.
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Determinants of extreme voting

CESifo DICE Report
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85041114232
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Fetzer, T.; Novy, D.
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Economics has nothing to do with religion

Economic Ideas You Should Forget
2017 | Book
Part of DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47458-8_3
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2-s2.0-85034092118
Contributors: Becker, S.O.
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Education and religious participation: city-level evidence from Germany’s secularization period 1890–1930

Journal of Economic Growth
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10887-017-9142-2
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2-s2.0-85014241384
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Nagler, M.; Woessmann, L.
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EU Regional Policy and the UK

The Economics of UK-EU Relations: From the Treaty of Rome to the Vote for Brexit
2017 | Book
Part of DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55495-2_8
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2-s2.0-85042663514
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Egger, P.H.; Von Ehrlich, M.
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Who voted for Brexit? A comprehensive district-level analysis

Economic Policy
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/epolic/eix012
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2-s2.0-85033368251
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Fetzer, T.; Novy, D.
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The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy

Economic Journal
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12220
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2-s2.0-84957851754
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Boeckh, K.; Hainz, C.; Woessmann, L.
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Causes and Consequences of the Protestant Reformation

Explorations in Economic History
2016-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2016.07.007
Contributors: Sascha O. Becker; Steven Pfaff; Jared Rubin
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Trade and tasks: an exploration over three decades in Germany

Economic Policy
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/epolic/eiv014
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Contributors: Becker, S. O.; Muendler, M. A.
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IPEHD - The ifo Prussian Economic History Database

Historical Methods
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2013.852370
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2-s2.0-84899458413
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Cinnirella, F.; Hornung, E.; Woessmann, L.
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A Gift is Not Always a Gift: Heterogeneity and Long-term Effects in a Gift Exchange Experiment

Economica
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12004
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2-s2.0-84874955092
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Messer, D.; Wolter, S.C.
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Absorptive capacity and the growth and investment effects of regional transfers: A regression discontinuity design with heterogeneous treatment effects

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1257/pol.5.4.29
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2-s2.0-84887896877
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Egger, P.H.; Ehrlich, M.V.
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Does womens education affect fertility? Evidence from pre-demographic transition Prussia

European Review of Economic History
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/ereh/hes017
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WOS:000314122600002
Contributors: Becker, S. O.; Cinnirella, F.; Woessmann, L.
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Endogenous product versus process innovation and a firm's propensity to export

Empirical Economics
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-009-0322-6
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2-s2.0-84872663753
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Egger, P.H.
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Not the opium of the people: Income and secularization in a panel of prussian counties

American Economic Review
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1257/aer.103.3.539
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2-s2.0-84879103601
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Woessmann, L.
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Offshoring and the onshore composition of tasks and skills

Journal of International Economics
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2012.10.005
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2-s2.0-84876412236
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Ekholm, K.; Muendler, M.-A.
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Reversals of Fortune? A Long-term Perspective on Global Economic Prospects

2013-03-01 | Report
DOI: 10.31273/978-0-9576027-00
Contributors: Sascha O. Becker; Sascha O. Becker; Stephen Broadberry; Nicholas Crafts; Sayatan Ghosal; Sharun W. Mukand; Vera E. Troeger
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How low business tax rates attract MNE activity: Municipality-level evidence from Germany

Journal of Public Economics
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2012.05.006
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2-s2.0-84862309470
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Egger, P.H.; Merlo, V.
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The effect of investment in children's education on fertility in 1816 Prussia

Cliometrica
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11698-011-0061-8
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2-s2.0-80053396669
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Cinnirella, F.; Woessmann, L.
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The Effects of the Protestant Reformation on Human Capital

The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion
2012 | Book
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195390049.013.0005
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2-s2.0-84923418663
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Woessmann, L.
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Too much of a good thing? On the growth effects of the EU's regional policy

European Economic Review
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2012.03.001
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2-s2.0-84859932603
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Egger, P.H.; Von Ehrlich, M.
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Education and catch-up in the industrial revolution

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
2011 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1257/mac.3.3.92
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2-s2.0-79960751130
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Hornung, E.; Woessmann, L.
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Equity fund ownership and the cross-regional diversification of household risk

Journal of Banking and Finance
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2009.07.005
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2-s2.0-70350222215
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Hoffmann, M.
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Going NUTS: The effect of EU Structural Funds on regional performance

Journal of Public Economics
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2010.06.006
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2-s2.0-77955270628
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Egger, P.H.; von Ehrlich, M.
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Margins of multinational labor substitution

American Economic Review
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1257/aer.100.5.1999
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2-s2.0-78650482502
Contributors: Muendler, M.-A.; Becker, S.O.
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The effect of Protestantism on education before the industrialization: Evidence from 1816 Prussia

Economics Letters
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2010.01.031
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2-s2.0-77950944680
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Woessmann, L.
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The trade-off between fertility and education: Evidence from before the demographic transition

Journal of Economic Growth
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10887-010-9054-x
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2-s2.0-77956618784
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Cinnirella, F.; Woessmann, L.
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Youth emancipation and perceived job insecurity of parents and children

Journal of Population Economics
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-008-0224-5
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2-s2.0-77953082696
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Bentolila, S.; Fernandes, A.; Ichino, A.
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Beschäftigungseffekte von Produkt-und Prozessinnovationen bei Exporteuren und Nicht-Exporteuren

AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv
2009 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11943-009-0064-0
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2-s2.0-70449412541
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Egger, P.H.
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Common political culture: Evidence on regional corruption contagion

European Journal of Political Economy
2009 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2008.12.002
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2-s2.0-67749113638
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Egger, P.H.; Seidel, T.
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Was weber wrong? A human capital theory of protestant economic history

Quarterly Journal of Economics
2009 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1162/qjec.2009.124.2.531
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2-s2.0-67650151365
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Woessmann, L.
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Income insecurity and youth emancipation: A theoretical approach

B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy
2008 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2202/1935-1682.1783
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Luther and the girls: Religious denomination and the female education gap in nineteenth-century Prussia

Scandinavian Journal of Economics
2008 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2008.00561.x
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2-s2.0-57249084621
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Woessmann, L.
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The effect of FDI on job security

B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy
2008 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2202/1935-1682.1770
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2-s2.0-62249178130
Contributors: Becker, S.O.; Muendler, M.-A.
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