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4 June 2026

Paris Empirical Political Economics Seminar (PEPES) with Sascha Becker (Warwick and Monash University)

About this event

04 June 2026 from 12:30 until 13:45

Salle H405

28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007, Paris

This event is not accessible to people with reduced mobility.

Organized by

Department of Economics and PSE
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Portrait of Sascha Becker

Sascha O. Becker is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick and the Xiaokai Yang Chair of Business and Economics at Monash University. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), of the International Economic Association, and of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA). Among his editorial duties, he is Editor of the Economic Journal, a member of the Board of Editors of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, an Editorial Board member of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review (AEHR) and of the Italian Economic Journal, and an Associate Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and of the Journal of Economic Growth.

Sascha’s main fields of research interest are public economics, education and labour economics, and economic history.  

Sascha O. Becker's website

He will present a paper, joint with David de la Croix, Sebastian Ottinger, and Nico Voigtländer, at the next PEPES Seminar on the topic:

Political Fragmentation, Forced Mobility, and Knowledge Accumulation in Europe before 1800 (read abstract, PDF 46 KB)

Exceptionally the next PEPES Seminar will be joint with our Applied Microeconomics Seminar and will host Maria PETROVA (BSE), on June 11th.

About this event

04 June 2026 from 12:30 until 13:45

Salle H405

28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007, Paris

This event is not accessible to people with reduced mobility.

Organized by

Department of Economics and PSE