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D-Index
51
Citations
18234
World Ranking
1299
National Ranking
146

Sascha O. Becker publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sascha O. Becker sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 184 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Sascha O. Becker D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sascha O. Becker sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sascha O. Becker is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research broadly spans the social sciences, with a particular focus on sociology, political science, demography, and economics. They have contributed to several subfields, including sociology and political science, demography, economics and econometrics, political science and international relations, and gender studies.

The scientist's work frequently covers topics related to culture, economy, and development studies, religion and society interactions, historical economic and social studies, migration and labor dynamics, intergenerational and educational inequality studies, and political conflict and governance.

Notable recent papers by Sascha O. Becker include:

  • Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers (2020, American Economic Review)
  • The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism (2020, The Journal of Economic Perspectives)
  • Multiplex Network Ties and the Spatial Diffusion of Radical Innovations: Martin Luther's Leadership in the Early Reformation (2020, American Sociological Review)
  • The impact of public employment: Evidence from Bonn (2020, Journal of Urban Economics)
  • Forced displacement in history: Some recent research (2022, Australian Economic History Review)

Their frequent collaborators include Jared Rubin, Ludger Woessmann, Sharun Mukand, Steven Pfaff, and Hans-Joachim Voth, with whom they have co-authored multiple papers.

Publications by Becker have appeared repeatedly in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (23 publications)
  • Journal of Economic Literature (2 publications)
  • Journal of Demographic Economics (2 publications)
  • The Journal of Economic History (2 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Estimation of average treatment effects based on propensity scores

    Sascha O. Becker;Andrea Ichino

  • Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History

    Sascha O. Becker;Ludger Woessmann

  • Who Voted for Brexit? A Comprehensive District-Level Analysis

    Sascha O. Becker;Thiemo Fetzer;Dennis Novy

  • Sensitivity Analysis for Average Treatment Effects

    Sascha O. Becker;Marco Caliendo;Marco Caliendo

  • Going NUTS: The effect of EU Structural Funds on regional performance

    Sascha O. Becker;Peter H. Egger;Maximilian von Ehrlich

  • 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

  • ENDOGENOUS PRODUCT VERSUS PROCESS INNOVATION AND A FIRM'S PROPENSITY TO EXPORT

    Sascha O. Becker;Peter H. Egger

  • Too much of a good thing? On the growth effects of the EU's regional policy

    Sascha O. Becker;Peter H. Egger;Maximilian von Ehrlich

  • Absorptive Capacity and the Growth and Investment Effects of Regional Transfers: A Regression Discontinuity Design with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

    Sascha O. Becker;Peter H. Egger;Maximilian von Ehrlich

  • The trade-off between fertility and education: evidence from before the demographic transition

    Sascha O. Becker;Francesco Cinnirella;Ludger Woessmann;Ludger Woessmann

  • Who Voted for Brexit? A Comprehensive District-Level Analysis

    Sascha O. Becker;Thiemo Fetzer;Dennis Novy

  • Consequences of forced migration: A survey of recent findings

    Sascha O. Becker;Andreas Ferrara

  • Too much of a good thing? On the growth effects of the EU's regional policy

    Sascha O. Becker;Peter H. Egger;Maximilian Von Ehrlich

  • How Large is the Brain Drain from Italy

    Sascha O. Becker;Andrea Ichino;Giovanni Peri

  • Who voted for Brexit? Individual and regional data combined

    Eleonora Alabrese;Sascha O. Becker;Thiemo Fetzer;Dennis Novy

  • Offshoring and the onshore composition of tasks and skills

    Sascha O. Becker;Karolina Ekholm;Marc Andreas Muendler

  • Location choice and employment decisions: a comparison of German and Swedish multinationals

    Sascha O. Becker;Karolina Ekholm;Robert Jäckle;Marc Andreas Muendler

  • Youth emancipation and perceived job insecurity of parents and children

    Sascha O. Becker;Samuel Bentolila;Ana Fernandes;Andrea Ichino

  • Luther and the girls : religious denomination and the female education gap in nineteenth-century Prussia

    Sascha O. Becker;Ludger Woessmann

  • Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers

    Sascha O. Becker;Irena Grosfeld;Pauline Grosjean;Nico Voigtländer

  • Education and Catch-Up in the Industrial Revolution

    Sascha O. Becker;Erik Hornung;Ludger Woessmann

  • Location Choice and Employment Decisions: A Comparison of German and Swedish Multinationals

    Sascha O. Becker;Sascha O. Becker;Karolina Ekholm;Robert Jaeckle;Marc-Andreas Muendler;Marc-Andreas Muendler

  • Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History

    Sascha O. Becker;Ludger Wößmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Egger
Peter Egger ETH Zurich
Ludger Woessmann
Ludger Woessmann Ifo Institute for Economic Research
Andrea Ichino
Andrea Ichino European University Institute
Samuel Bentolila
Samuel Bentolila Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros
Marco Caliendo
Marco Caliendo University of Potsdam
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya Paris School of Economics
Giovanni Peri
Giovanni Peri University of California, Davis

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