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Sascha O. Becker

Professor of Economics, University of Warwick

Sascha O. Becker is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, Deputy Head of Department and Research Director of the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE). Previously, he held positions at Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich and at the University of Stirling. He is also a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labour Economics.

He studied Economics at the Universities of Bonn, Germany, and at the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE) in Paris, France. He obtained his Ph.D. at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence in 2001. In Spring 2000, he was a visiting scholar at the Center for Labor Economics at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB). In 2006, he spent 7 months at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD). During 2014/15 is a Visiting Professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management.

His research has appeared in international journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the American Economic Review.

His Research Interests: Economic History, Labour Economics, Education Economics, Public Economics

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Economics, University of Warwick