Sascha O. Becker
@essobecker.bsky.social
Economist @MonashWarwick Project Leader @RF_Berlin BWV227 Editor @EJ_RES Associate Editor @QJEHarvard First gen high school grad Classical music and jazz enthusiast
After 3 years as Editor at @theeconjournal.bsky.social, I am looking forward to my sabbatical 😇 Across 511 papers I handled, I am happy about the max of (only) 65 days. Mean=15, Min=0, Median 5, std=23. This was only possible thanks to the many amazing referees at the EJ ❤️ Thanks, everyone 🙏
Congrats to amazing recipients of 2026 SIOE prizes for best book, best thesis, best paper www.sioe.org/news/2026-si...
The 2026 SIOE Awards – SIOE
Angela Zhang wins the Douglass North Best Book Award, Matteo Tranchero the Ronald H. Coase Dissertation Award, and Ngoma, Sievert, Jaravel, Nunn and Weigel the Oliver E.…
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Adorno: “The premier demand upon all education is that Auschwitz not happen again. Every debate about the ideals of education is trivial and inconsequential compared to this single ideal: never again Auschwitz."
Léonard Wantchekon's autobiography is spectacular. What a life. Tortured by the regime in Benin in his student days. Years in prison. Escaped to Nigeria, then Côte d'Ivoire, from there to Canada. PhD at Northwestern, first job at Yale. Founder of the African School of Economics. Highly recommended 👇
🚨CALL FOR PAPERS Hey #EconSky #EconTwitter! We are now accepting submissions for Season 13 of the Applied Young Economists Webinar! Deadline: Friday, 21 Aug 2026 Submission: forms.gle/5jsqgxLG1Jyvj8… (Email us your paper if you cannot access it) Details below⬇️
Thanks to my fellow @theeconjournal.bsky.social Editors for the farewell gift 🎁 Pat Metheny concert at the Barbican Centre London
Bravo! Excellent conference and great gala to close it out. Here, @ksonin.bsky.social staging Napoleon’s surrender to Kutuzov (in fact, Napoleon surrendered to Wellington, which Kostya knows full well).
Sascha O. Becker@essobecker.bsky.social · 3w agoThe 2026 edition of the @sioecon.bsky.social conference at INSEAD Fontainebleau organized by the amazing (dancing) Maria Guadalupe was extraordinary. Thanks, Maria and team ❤️ Presidential address by my wonderful co-author @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social on masculinity norms and patriarchy 🚀
The 2026 edition of the @sioecon.bsky.social conference at INSEAD Fontainebleau organized by the amazing (dancing) Maria Guadalupe was extraordinary. Thanks, Maria and team ❤️ Presidential address by my wonderful co-author @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social on masculinity norms and patriarchy 🚀
Great to see mine & jan bakkers research featured in the ft today
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 3w agoIs Rightmove taking us for a ride? ft.trib.al/1ogmg1l | opinion
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
Thanks to the wonderful @eief.bsky.social people for hosting me 🙏 Such a vibrant place ❤️ ... and so many delicacies nearby 😍
*not-so-fun fact There is still no authoritative translation of the Ethiopian bible, more than 500 years after the outside world learned about it So it will be long before we get any translations of the hundreds of thousands of African manuscripts discovered in the last 30 yrs
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Ok I've moved to Australia from New York with an infant and a toddler (doggo on the way) and I felt a bit invincible for a minute there, and then jetlag showed me who's boss. But YAY this place is paradise and I'm so excited! HI MELBOURNE!!!! ❤️🤗
After several days of hard work with @ldb-62.bsky.social, some well-deserved jazz ❤️ Anouar Brahem playing his album "After the Last Sky" at the Casa del Jazz in Rome 🇮🇹
📢 We are hiring 📢 Please spread the word: We are hiring a 🧑🎓 Postdoc (up to 6 years, non-tenure track) at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education! Come join our team as junior faculty: www.ifo.de/en/job-offer... Application deadline: July 22
Very much looking forward to the discussion... Please join if interested in the interplay of religious beliefs, broadly defined, and economic development...
3D Seminar@3dseminar.bsky.social · 2mo agoOur next seminar will be held on June 25th, at 3 pm (UTC+2). David Fuechtjohann (GIZ) and Nathan Nunn (University of British Columbia) will discuss the role of religion and religious actors in shaping economic and social development across the world. Register at: listserv.gwdg.de/mailman/list...
The wonderful people at Uppsala University sent me this hoodie as a lovely reminder of the great time I had at the 4th Workshop in Economic History in Uppsala, May 28–29, 2026 ❤️🙏
🇪🇺 Revised air passenger rights agreed! Some examples: ✈️ Kids younger than 14 sit for free next to their parents ✈️ Improved system to compare ticket prices ✈️ Airlines must accept printed boarding pass without extra fee ✈️ No-show policies are banned Read more here ⬇️
Commission welcomes landmark agreement on revised air passenger rights
The Commission welcomes the political agreement reached by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU on the revision of EU air passenger rights.
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Thank you to the amazing keynotes @cynthiakinnan.bsky.social @essobecker.bsky.social, and all presenters at the Diversity and Human Capital Workshop in Exeter! It was a pleasure for us to host you all and hear about so many exciting projects. @sanchariroy.bsky.social @climent.bsky.social
🌈 Looking forward to welcoming participants to Exeter for the 4th edition of the Diversity and Human Capital Workshop @exeter.ac.uk! 📢 Keynote speakers: @cynthiakinnan.bsky.social and @essobecker.bsky.social. 📑 Final programme: 🔗 sites.google.com/view/diversi... @uniofexeternews.bsky.social
I offered a Coventry history walking tour for Econ PhD students today, starting at The Weaver's House, then Vignoles Bridge, St. John the Baptist, Bablake College, Grammar School, the Burges, Holy Trinity Church, Old Cathedral with tower climb and Motofest, and New Cathedral with group picture 🎉
Linnaeus Inequality Summit is on! ☀️ Now with a fascinating keynote speech by Nico Voigtländer (UCLA) on "De-Polarizing Politics"! 🤩
Department of Economics and Statistics, Linnaeus University@linnaeus-econ.bsky.social · 3mo ago💫 On June 2-3, we'll be organizing the inaugural Linnaeus University Summit in Växjö! We have an amazing program, including a keynote speech by Nico Voigtländer (UCLA)! See full program below 👇
I first met Christian Dustmann at @eui-eu.bsky.social in 1997/98 when he taught me Microeconometrics. David Card was on Christian's PhD committee in 1992 & also on my PhD committee at EUI in 2001. Nice chat at Christian's Festschrift Conference at HU Berlin last weekend @rfberlin.bsky.social
First time in Uppsala 🇸🇪 Morning run with stopover at Uppsala Cathedral.
