Contested Memories: The Political Effects of De-Commemoration Proposals
Bastian Becker and Francesco Colombo
Journal of European Public Policy, forthcoming
[PREPRINT]
Who wants What, and Why? Understanding Support and Opposition to UBI
Bastian Becker and Hanna Schwander
Journal of European Social Policy, OnlineFirst, 2025
[DOI] [DATA]
Taxing your cake and growing it too: public beliefs on the dual benefits of progressive taxation
Bastian Becker, Bruno Castanho Silva, and Hanna Lierse
Journal of Public Policy, FirstView, 2025
[DOI] [DATA]
Undeserving Heirs: How the Origins of Wealth Shape Attitudes Towards Redistribution
Bastian Becker and Nora Waitkus
European Societies, 27(5), 2025
[DOI] [DATA]
Between God and Nation: The Colonial Origins of Democracy Support in British Africa
Bastian Becker and Dean Dulay
Studies in Comparative International Development, forthcoming
[DOI] [DATA]
Missionary Legacies of Gender Equality: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Bastian Becker and Felix Meier zu Selhausen
European Review of Economic History, 29(4), 2025
[DOI] [DATA]
International Inequality and Demand for Redistribution in the Global South
Bastian Becker
Political Science Research and Methods, 12(2), 2024
[DOI]
The Colonial Labour Question: Trade and Social Expenditure in Interwar Africa
Bastian Becker and Carina Schmitt
Global Social Policy, 24(3), 2024
[DOI] [DATA]
License to Educate: The Role of National Networks in Colonial Empires
Bastian Becker and Carina Schmitt
World Development, 169, 2023
[DOI] [DATA]
The Colonial Struggle over Polygamy: Consequences for Educational Expansion in sub-Saharan Africa
Bastian Becker
Economic History of Developing Regions, 37(1), 2022
[DOI]
Featured in The Conversation Africa
The Empire Within: Longitudinal Evidence on the Expansion of Christian Missions in Colonial Africa
Bastian Becker
Journal of Historical Political Economy, 2(2), 2022
[DOI] [DATA]
Mapping Missions: New Data for the Study of African History
Christina Hedde-von Westernhagen and Bastian Becker
Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 7(1), 2022
[DOI] [DATA]
Caught in the Middle! Wealth Inequality and Conflict over Redistribution
Hanna Lierse, Davy Lascombes, and Bastian Becker
Social Justice Research, 35, 2022
[DOI]
Significant Others? Social Groups, Income Expectations, and Redistributive Preferences
Bastian Becker
Social Science Research, 100, 2022
[DOI]
Temporal Change in Inequality Perceptions and Effects on Political Attitudes
Bastian Becker
Political Research Exchange, 3(1), 2021
[DOI] [PDF]
Mind the Income Gaps? Experimental Evidence of Information's Lasting Effect on Redistributive Preferences
Bastian Becker
Social Justice Research, 33(2), 2020
[DOI] [PDF] [DATA]
Featured in The Washington Post: The Monkey Cage [PDF]
Behind the Curve and Beyond: Calculating Representative Predicted Probability Changes and Treatment Effects for Non-Linear Models
Bastian Becker
Advances in Methodology and Statistics, 15(1), 2018
[LINK] [PDF]
Promoting Renewable Electricity Generation in Emerging Economies
Bastian Becker and Doris Fischer
Energy Policy, 56, 2013
[DOI]
Political Economy of Inequality
Bastian Becker
Elgar Encyclopedia of Business and Government, Edward Elgar, forthcoming
[PREPRINT]
Colonial Legacies of Social Policy
Bastian Becker and Joan Ricart-Huguet
Oxford Handbook of Social Policies in the Developing World, Oxford University Press, forthcoming
[PREPRINT]
Colonial Legacies in International Aid: Policy Priorities and Actor Constellations
Bastian Becker
From Colonialism to International Aid, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020
[DOI] [PDF]
Implementing Green Industrial Policy
Bastian Becker and Anna Pegels
Green Industrial Policy in Emerging Economies, Routledge, 2014
[LINK]
The Berlin Polarization Monitor: A Panel Study of Partisan and Issue-Based Polarization in Germany (2025–2027)
Bastian Becker, Hanna Schwander, Luke Shuttleworth, Thorsten Faas, Denis Gerstorf, Jule Specht, Céline Teney
SocArXiv, 2025
[DOI]
Introducing COLDAT: The Colonial Dates Dataset
Bastian Becker
SOCIUM SFB 1342 WorkingPapers, No. 2, 2019
[LINK] [DATA]
Featured in Our World in Data and Science
Risk Inequality and Welfare States: Social Policy Preferences, Development, and Dynamics. By Philipp Rehm
Bastian Becker
The Journal of Politics, 79(1), 2017
[DOI]
Poverty Amid of Plenty in the New India. By Atul Kohli
Bastian Becker
Acta Oeconomica, 63(4), 2013
[DOI]
Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It. By Morten Jerven
Bastian Becker
Society & Economy, 35(2), 2013
[DOI]