Sascha O. Becker

@essobecker.bsky.social

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Economist @MonashWarwick
Project Leader @RF_Berlin
BWV227
Editor @EJ_RES
Associate Editor @QJEHarvard
First gen high school grad
Classical music and jazz enthusiast

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · Aug 22

Excited to have been elected as Fellow of the Econometric Society. Official Certificate Ceremony today at the World Congress in Seoul 🇰🇷 (handshake with Larry Samuelson) @econometric.bsky.social

Reposted by Kevin O’Rourke, Sascha O. Becker, Martha Bailey , and 2 more Kevin O’Rourke, Sascha O. Becker, Martha Bailey, Shelly Lundberg, Georg Weizsäcker

Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · 1d

1/Universities need to systematically address the findings in the Epstein files. In my opinion, every university in which current or past faculty, administrators, trustees appear in the files, should establish formal bodies to review and assess.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

A $50,000 Watch and Friendly Notes: One College Leader’s Ties to Epstein

www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Scott Gehlbach, Nathan Nunn

Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 4d

Such a great book by
@paulinegrosjean.bsky.social
I ❤️ the 🇫🇷 version.

Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 4d

Pauline Grosjean (UNSW) draws from her new CUP monograph 'Patriarcapitalism - Institutions, culture, and the roots of gender inequality' to argue for the importance and mutability of gender norms in the 2026 Noel Butlin lecture at the 2026 APEBH meeting in Adelaide sites.google.com/hawaii.edu/2...

Reposted by Sascha O. Becker, Nathan Nunn

Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 4d

Reposted by Sascha O. Becker, Luke Sibieta

Carmen Villa @carmenvillaecon.bsky.social · 4d

🚨📰New WP 🚨📰
How does social housing design affect neighborhoods decades later? We study London gangs to show that postwar urban planning—specifically high-rise public housing construction—had lasting effects on gang formation
@cep-lse.bsky.social

Reposted by Sascha O. Becker, Alexandra Cirone

Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · 5d

Call for nominations for dissertation and book awards from @sioecon.bsky.social. Please get the word out!

2026 SIOE Awards: Announcement and Call for Nominations | SIOE

www.sioe.org

Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 7d

@phinifa.bsky.social

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Royal Economic Society @resmedia.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations to our @EJ_RES 2025 Referee Prize winners! 🎉

These prizes recognise the outstanding contribution of referees and the vital role they play in supporting authors and the Journal.

Read more: bit.ly/3NQoMnY

Reposted by Sascha O. Becker, Iikka Korhonen, Tim Leunig

Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 7d

📢 #CallForPapers for the 11th Monash-Paris-Warwick-Zurich-CEPR Text-As-Data #Workshop!

Papers using text, audio, images, or other unstructured data are welcome.

Organisers: @elliottash.bsky.social @essobecker.bsky.social & Philine Widmer
Deadline: 13 March
cepr.org/events/11th-...
#EconSky

Reposted by Sascha O. Becker, Mirco Tonin, Simon Wiederhold

Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 11d

🚨 Now out in the Economic Journal:

“Patience and Subnational Differences in Human Capital:
Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests”
w/ Hanushek, @kinnelavinia.bsky.social ‪& Sancassani

💡 Patience accounts for ¾ of regional achievement diffs in Italy, ⅓ US

👉 doi.org/10.1093/ej/u...

Reposted by Sascha O. Becker, Georg Weizsäcker

Tymofiy Mylovanov @mylovanov.bsky.social · 12d

Russia wants to push Ukraine into the Stone Age — to freeze us, exhaust us, and leave us without a future. That will not happen.

This why Kyiv School of Economics is hosting a 3-day Science Mini School for high school students and early-year undergraduates, right now in Kyiv. 1/

Reposted by Steffen Huck, Sascha O. Becker

The Economic Journal @theeconjournal.bsky.social · 12d

📣Hot off the press! 🆕 @EJ_RES virtual issue – Lab Experiments – out now. Featuring a foreword by Steffen Huck. Learn more and read the issue👉 bit.ly/4rb6uMy
@resmedia.bsky.social @academic.oup.com
@steffenhuck.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/acad...

Reposted by Kris Inwood, James A. Benn

Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 12d

Our survey on Gender and Religion is now published 🎉

doi.org/10.1017/dem....

See 🧵 below.

Thanks to the wonderful @jeanetbentzen.bsky.social and @chuncheekokecon.bsky.social 🙏

Reposted by Sascha O. Becker, Johannes Haushofer

Sara Lowes @saralowes.bsky.social · 14d

Please apply to this pre-doc position to work on projects related to culture, political economy, and development in DRC and Mozambique. Strong data analysis skills required. First round of applications reviewed Feb. 2. employment.ucsd.edu/research-ass...

Research Assistant - 137867

Research Assistant - 137867 | Careers at UC San Diego

employment.ucsd.edu

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ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · 17d

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Our project leaders @essobecker.bsky.social, Christian Dustmann & Hyejin Ku show that skills and technology reinforce each other: early tech adoption increases demand for skilled labor, which in turn boosts further innovation. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

Reposted by Ludger Woessmann, Sascha O. Becker

Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 18d

In just over eight months, Berlin will hold its 20th state election since 1946. While its well known East West divide in voting behaviour is often attributed to the city’s former split into capitalist and socialist halves, these differences existed even before the city’s division. A thread. 🧵

Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 20d

Recent WP with C Dustmann and H Ku @rfberlin.bsky.social 🚂
warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

Lessons from the Age of Steam still relevant for the digital future

The United Kingdom has some of the highest levels of inequality between regions in the industrialised world. Inequalities in pay, productivity, skills and health outcomes have endured for decades desp...

warwick.ac.uk

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Sascha O. Becker

Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 20d

Mark Carney is a fantastic demonstration of why having a coherent political and economic worldview is so important for a politician.

When you encounter something out of the scope of what you’ve previously experienced, you can derive your approach from first principles.

Labour: take notes.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20d

Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.

The Carney doctrine

Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech

paulwells.substack.com

Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 21d

Should I wear that shirt again? 👇

Vatsal Khandelwal @vatsalecon.bsky.social · 21d

📢 Call for Papers

4th Diversity and Human Capital Workshop, June 9–10, 2026 @exeter.ac.uk @uofebusiness.bsky.social

We welcome papers in applied microeconomics, including health, labour, education, development, and public economics. Submit your paper by 16 March: bit.ly/3YRaYMa

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Vatsal Khandelwal @vatsalecon.bsky.social · 21d

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Sascha O. Becker, Niclas Berggren

Bård Harstad @bardharstad.bsky.social · 22d

To stay relevant, I am simplifying my syllabuses by replacing all international trade and political economy papers with this single one: academic.oup.com/ej/article-a...

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Sascha O. Becker, Michelle Everson , and 1 more Peter Thorne, Sascha O. Becker, Michelle Everson, Paul Nightingale

Anton Spisak @antonspisak.bsky.social · 23d

Worth noting that the EU’s reluctant tariff concessions to the US, agreed between VdL and Trump at Turnberry, haven’t yet been approved by the European Parliament.

There’s no realistic prospect of the US deal going through now.

Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 23d

No European style welfare state in US either?

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Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke @kevinhorourke.bsky.social · 23d

No. This is a de-escalation in that he is no longer threatening violence. The lesson is that when the EU shows a bit of resolve and muscle bullies back off.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 23d

🇺🇸 US President Donald Trump has escalated his quest to acquire Greenland, threatening multiple European nations with tariffs of up to 25 percent until his purchase of the Danish territory is achieved.
➡️ u.afp.com/SB4G

Reposted by Kevin O’Rourke, Sascha O. Becker, Johan P. Olsen

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 23d

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Jared Rubin @jaredcrubin.com · 24d

Our paper is now published at QJE ... it is open access!!!

academic.oup.com/qje/article/...

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 24d

Important paper on "Deaths of Despair and the Decline of American Religion" by Tyler Giles, Dan Hungerman and Tamar Oostrom

👉 doi.org/10.1093/jeea...