2026 Sascha O. Becker: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	51	1299	1154	146	131	184	18234

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

3959
Citations
Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History

Sascha O. Becker;Ludger Woessmann

1920
Citations
Who Voted for Brexit? A Comprehensive District-Level Analysis

Sascha O. Becker;Thiemo Fetzer;Dennis Novy

1034
Citations
Sensitivity Analysis for Average Treatment Effects

Sascha O. Becker;Marco Caliendo;Marco Caliendo

888
Citations
Going NUTS: The effect of EU Structural Funds on regional performance

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

759
Citations
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

710
Citations
ENDOGENOUS PRODUCT VERSUS PROCESS INNOVATION AND A FIRM'S PROPENSITY TO EXPORT

Sascha O. Becker;Peter H. Egger

560
Citations
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

549
Citations
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

472
Citations
The trade-off between fertility and education: evidence from before the demographic transition

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

391
Citations
Who Voted for Brexit? A Comprehensive District-Level Analysis

Sascha O. Becker;Thiemo Fetzer;Dennis Novy

346
Citations
Consequences of forced migration: A survey of recent findings

Sascha O. Becker;Andreas Ferrara

324
Citations
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

317
Citations
How Large is the Brain Drain from Italy

Sascha O. Becker;Andrea Ichino;Giovanni Peri

304
Citations
Who voted for Brexit? Individual and regional data combined

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

270
Citations
Offshoring and the onshore composition of tasks and skills

Sascha O. Becker;Karolina Ekholm;Marc Andreas Muendler

261
Citations
Location choice and employment decisions: a comparison of German and Swedish multinationals

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

253
Citations
Youth emancipation and perceived job insecurity of parents and children

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

247
Citations
Luther and the girls : religious denomination and the female education gap in nineteenth-century Prussia

Sascha O. Becker;Ludger Woessmann

233
Citations
Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers

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

225
Citations
Education and Catch-Up in the Industrial Revolution

Sascha O. Becker;Erik Hornung;Ludger Woessmann

209
Citations
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

95
Citations
Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History

Sascha O. Becker;Ludger Wößmann

79
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Egger ETH Zurich

Ludger Woessmann Ifo Institute for Economic Research

Andrea Ichino European University Institute

Marco Caliendo University of Potsdam

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya Paris School of Economics

Giovanni Peri University of California, Davis

External Links

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