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Sebastian Becker

Sebastian Becker

Ph.D. Student of the Graduate Center

Scholarship Recipient of the Public Economics Department

Contact

+49 30 89789 - 351

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. 

Publications

DIW Weekly Report 17/18 / 2023

Reform of Reduced Earning Capacity Pension Cuts Risk of Poverty, but Comes Late

2023| Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
DIW Wochenbericht 17 / 2023

Reform der Erwerbsminderungsrente senkt Armutsrisiko, kommt aber spät

2023| Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan

Lectures

Vortrag

Subjective Beliefs and Stock Market Participation in Germany

Sebastian Becker
Berlin, 01.12.2022
| GC Winter Workshop 2022
Vortrag

Employment Responses to Pension Wealth Effect

Sebastian Becker, Hermann Buslei, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
Berlin, 30.06.2022 - 01.07.2022
| SOEP 2022: 14th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference
Vortrag

Responses to Unexpected and Permanent Changes in Pension Income

Sebastian Becker, Hermann Buslei, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
[Online], 26.09.2021 - 29.09.2021
| Climate Economics: Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2021; Online-Konferenz
Vortrag

Responses to Unexpected and Permanent Changes in Pension Income

Sebastian Becker, Hermann Buslei, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
[Online], 23.08.2021 - 27.08.2021
| 36th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association - 74th European Meeting of the Econometric Society: EEA - ESEM 2021; Virtual
Vortrag

Responses to Unexpected and Permanent Changes in Pension Income

Sebastian Becker
[Online], 03.02.2021
| Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen, DIW Berlin: [Webinar]

Research Projects

Research Project

GETTSIM – Contributions to an Open Source Tax- and Transfers Simulator

Current Project| Public Economics
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