Sebastian Becker
Scholarship Recipient of the
Public Economics Department
Sebastian joined the Berlin School of Economics as a PhD student in 2019. He obtained a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. Degree in Economics from the University of Bonn. During his studies, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Applied Microeconomics and the briq Institute on Behavior and Inequality, as well as a teaching assistant at the Institute for Finance and Statistics at the University of Bonn. In 2018 he also completed an internship in the research department of PriceWaterhouseCoopers. His master's thesis utilized a self-programmed software package to assess the evaluation of marginal returns to tertiary education within the structural framework of the Generalized Roy model in Germany.
His research interests predominantly include topics from the fields of micro-econometrics, labor economics and industrial organization.