Sascha studied Economics at the Universities of Bonn, Germany, and at the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE) in Paris, France. He obtained his Ph.D. at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence in 2001. In Spring 2000, he was a visiting scholar at the Center for Labor Economics at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB). From September 2001 until April 2008, he worked at the Center for Economic Studies of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich. In 2006, he spent 7 months at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD).
His research interests are in labour economics and education economics as well as in international macro and trade. Over the last years, he has been using historical data from 19th century Prussia to look into the relation between religion, education and economic success.
In his little spare time, he likes running in the Scottish countryside. |
