Bastian Becker - Publications

Journal articles

Becker, B., and N. Waitkus (forthcoming). Undeserving Heirs: How the Origins of Wealth Shape Attitudes Towards Redistribution, European Societies, forthcoming. [PREPRINT]

Becker, B., and D. Dulay (forthcoming). Between God and Nation: The Colonial Origins of Democracy Support in British Africa, Studies in Comparative International Development. [DOI] [DATA]

Becker, B., and C. Schmitt (2024). The Colonial Labour Question: Trade and Social Expenditure in Interwar Africa (with Carina Schmitt), Global Social Policy, 24(3), 367-389. [DOI] [DATA]

Becker, B. (2024). International Inequality and Demand for Redistribution in the Global South, Political Science Research and Methods, 12(2), 407-415. [DOI]

Becker, B., and C. Schmitt (2023). License to Educate: The Role of National Networks in Colonial Empires, World Development, 169. [DOI]

Becker, B. (2022). The Colonial Struggle over Polygamy: Consequences for Educational Expansion in sub-Saharan Africa, Economic History of Developing Regions, 37(1), 27-49. [DOI]

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Becker, B. (2022). The Empire Within: Longitudinal Evidence on the Expansion of Christian Missions in Colonial Africa, Journal of Historical Political Economy, 2(2), 333-362. [DOI] [DATA]

Hedde-von Westernhagen, C. and B. Becker (2022). Mapping Missions: New Data for the Study of African History (with), Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 7(1). [DOI] [DATA]

Lierse, H., D. Lascombes, and B. Becker (2022). Caught in the Middle! Wealth Inequality and Conflict over Redistribution (with), Social Justice Research, 35. [DOI]

Becker, B. (2022). Significant Others? Social Groups, Income Expectations, and Redistributive Preferences, Social Science Research, 100. [DOI]

Becker, B. (2021). Temporal Change in Inequality Perceptions and Effects on Political Attitudes, Political Research Exchange, 3(1). [DOI] [PDF]

Becker, B. (2020). Mind the Income Gaps? Experimental Evidence of Information's Lasting Effect on Redistributive Preferences, Social Justice Research, 33(2). [DOI] [PDF] [DATA]

Featured in The Washington Post: The Monkey Cage [PDF]

Becker, B. (2018). Behind the Curve and Beyond: Calculating Representative Predicted Probability Changes and Treatment Effects for Non-Linear Models, Advances in Methodology and Statistics, 15(1). [LINK] [PDF]

Becker, B. (2013). Promoting Renewable Electricity Generation in Emerging Economies (with Doris Fischer), Energy Policy, 56. [DOI]

Chapters

Becker, B. (forthcoming). Political Economy of Inequality, In Matthew Maguire, Graham Wilson (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Business and Government, Edward Elgar. [PREPRINT]

Becker, B. and J. Ricart-Huguet (forthcoming). Colonial Legacies of Social Policy, In Armando Barrientos, Matthew Carnes, Huck-Ju Kwon, Herbert Obinger, Leila Patel, Carina Schmitt (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Social Policies in the Developing World, Oxford University Press. [PREPRINT]

Becker, B. (2020). Colonial Legacies in International Aid: Policy Priorities and Actor Constellations, In Carina Schmitt (ed.), From Colonialism to International Aid, Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] [PDF]

Becker, B., and A. Pegels (2014). Implementing Green Industrial Policy, In A.Pegels (ed.), Green Industrial Policy in Emerging Economies, Routledge: London. [LINK]

Working Papers

Becker, B. and F. Meier zu Selhausen (2023). Women on a Mission: Protestant Legacies of Gender Equality in Africa?, African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 72. [LINK]

Becker, B. (2019). Introducing COLDAT: The Colonial Dates Dataset, SOCIUM SFB 1342 WorkingPapers, No. 2. [LINK] [DATA]

Featured in Our World in Data and Science

Book Reviews

Becker, B. (2017). Risk Inequality and Welfare States: Social Policy Preferences, Development, and Dynamics. By Philipp Rehm, The Journal of Politics, 79(1), e13-e14. [DOI]

Becker, B. (2013). Poverty Amid of Plenty in the New India. By Atul Kohli, Acta Oeconomica, 63(4), 528-533. [DOI]

Becker, B. (2013). Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It. By Morten Jerven, Society & Economy, 35(2), 268-271. [DOI]