Arold, Benjamin
Education
Ph.D. Economics (LMU Munich)
M.Sc. Environmental Economics and Climate Change (London School of Economics)
M.Sc. Economics (University College London)
B.Sc. Economics (LMU Munich)
Biography
I am a postdoc at the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich, in the group of Elliott Ash. I hold a Ph.D. in economics from LMU Munich where my supervisors were Ludger Woessmann and Davide Cantoni. I was a Visiting Doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University in 2019/2020, and obtained my Master's degrees from the London School of Economics and the University College London. I will be on the Job Market in 2023/24.
My Ph.D. thesis was awarded the Prize for Best Dissertation in 2021/2022 from the German Economic Association, Section on Economics of Education, and the Fürther Ludwig Erhard Prize of 2023.
Research Overview
I am an applied microeconomist interested in labor/education economics, public economics, economics of religion, and AI & economics. One area of my research analyzes how school curricula shape student achievement, attitudes and beliefs, choices, and long-term labor market outcomes. Another area of my research employs tools from AI, NLP, and computational linguistics to study how economic policies and educational experiments affect employees and students.
Papers
See my personal website: external pagehttps://www.benjamin-arold.com/