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Benjamin W. Arold

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge

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  • Welcome

    I am an Assistant Professor (promotion-track to Associate Professor) at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich and earned my Ph.D. in Economics from LMU Munich. I have also held visiting positions at Harvard University and Princeton University.

    I am an applied microeconomist interested in labor and education economics, the economics of religion, and AI & economics. One strand of my research investigates how school curricula influence student achievement, attitudes, beliefs, choices, and long-term labor market outcomes. Another line of my work employs tools from AI, natural language processing (NLP), and computational linguistics to examine the effects of economic policies and educational interventions on employees and students.

    My Ph.D. thesis was awarded the Prize for Best Dissertation in 2021/2022 by the German Economic Association's Section on Economics of Education, and I received the Fürther Ludwig Erhard Prize in 2023.

  • Research

    Publications

    Evolution vs. Creationism in the Classroom:

    The Lasting Effects of Science Education

    Quarterly Journal of Economics, 139 (4): 2331-2375, 2024

    Download Paper. Twitter thread here. Short video presentation here.

    Coverage: LSE USAPP, VoxEU, Education Next, EconPol, Genetic Literacy Project, Econimate (Video), FutureEd, Leibniz Association, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings (Video), OurLongWalk, GlobeNewswire, YahooFinanceNews, Post Online Magazine, Bildungsklick (German), Verbaende.com (German), NNZ-News (German)

    Working Papers

    The Value of Worker Rights in Collective Bargaining

    with Elliott Ash, W. Bentley MacLeod, Suresh Naidu

    Working Paper: Download

    Genetic Endowments, Educational Outcomes and

    the Mediating Influence of School Quality

    with Paul Hufe and Marc Stoeckli

    Conditionally Accepted, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics

    Working Paper: Download. Twitter thread here.

    Coverage: Helsinki Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (German), Passauer Neue Presse (German), Bildungsklick (German), Verbaende.com

    Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from
    German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education

    with Ludger Woessmann and Larissa Zierow

     

    Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Human Resources

     

    Working Paper: Download. Twitter thread here.

     

    Coverage: VoxTalks (Podcast), VoxEU Column, CESifo Forum, The Guardian, Helsinki Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (German), Bayerischer Rundfunk (German), Spiegel Online (German), Bild.de (German), n-tv (German)

    The Unintended Effects of the Common Core State Standards on Non-Targeted Subjects

    with M. Danish Shakeel

    Working Paper: Download.

    Coverage: Forbes, Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation, The Education Exchange (Podcast)

    Measuring Student Mindsets at Scale in Resource-constrained Settings:

    SMS Toolkit with an Application to Brazil during the Pandemic

    with Guilherme Lichand, Elliott Ash, Jairo Rosero, Carlos Doria, Ana Trinidade, Eric Bettinger, and David Yeager

     

    Conditionally Accepted, Journal of Research on Adolescents 

     

    Working Paper: Download.

    Work in Progress

    The Opportunities and Challenges of ML-based
    Targeting for Educational Technologies:
    Evidence from Brazil in the Aftermath of the Pandemic

    with Guilherme Lichand, Elliott Ash, Jairo Rosero,
    Mario Curiki, Carlos Doria, David Yeager and Eric Bettinger

     

    Data Analysis on-going

    The Political Economy of Religious Language:
    Evidence from the United States Congress

    with Elliott Ash and Gloria Gennaro

     

    Data Analysis on-going

    Does the timing of income payments matter for households?

    Evidence from random within-month variation of child allowance payments

    with Larissa Zierow, Sebastian Wichert, Emanuel Renkl

     

    Data Collection on-going

    Policy papers (non-refereed)

    How are Low-Income Families Faring in the Corona Crisis?

    with Vera Freundl, Katia Werkmeister and Larissa Zierow

     

    Download: ifo Schnelldienst, 07/2021

     

    Coverage: Tagesschau.de (German), Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (German), Business Insider (German), Der Standard (Austrian)

  • Teaching

    Workshop: NLP and Computational Linguistics in Economics, Spring 2024, Princeton University.

    Teaching Material (Slides and Jupyter Notebooks) available on Github

    Lecture: Text Data in Business and Economics, Fall 2023, Basel University.

    Teaching Material (Slides and Jupyter Notebooks) available on Github

  • CV

    You can find my CV here.

  • Contact

    My office hours are on Mondays from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. during term time. Outside of term, meetings are available by appointment.

    Looking forward to answering your email!

    University of Cambridge
    Faculty of Economics
    Austin Robinson Building
    Sidgwick Avenue
    Cambridge
    CB3 9DD
    UNITED KINGDOM
    benjamin.arold@econ.cam.ac.uk

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