Benjamin Arold
@BenjaminArold
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, @cambridge_uni. Before @ETH, @LMU_Muenchen, @ifo_Institut. Economics of Labor, Education, Religion, and AI
🚨New Working Paper: The Value of Worker Rights in Collective Bargaining w/ @ellliottt, W. Bentley MacLeod & @snaidunl We propose novel NLP methods applied to 30,000 collective bargaining agreements to quantify the value of worker rights. 👉 nber.org/papers/w33605 🧵1/7
We are looking for a student assistant🔎 If you... ▶️ are interested in empirical research ▶️ are enrolled in a Bachelor’s/Master's program in econ, data/social sciences, or similar ▶️ have knowledge in econometrics, scraping & Stata/R ...please apply! 👉 ifo.de/en/stellenange…
📢 Job alert: Postdoc position 🧑🎓 (up to 6 years, non-tenure track) In our Center, @henninghermes is looking to fill a research position in the economics of education, particularly to join in major field experimental work on mentoring Come join our team! 👇
We are looking for a postdoc to work on exciting RCTs circling around scaling up mentoring interventions, starting in July 2026 💪🏻🚀 Amazing team at @ifo_Education & perfect place to thrive with @ifo_Institut, @CESifoNetwork + @ECONMunich 🫶🏻🌟 Please share widely 🙏 Link 👇
❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French? ➡️New Working Paper: Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek nber.org/papers/w33984 A🧵1/12
Looking for a university to visit next year? We have two positions for visiting prof in economics at Cambridge to cover teaching in macro and finance. Details here: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51797/ and jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51790/ Last few days to apply! @CamEcon
Friends, I'm thrilled to launch the Sustainable Education Research Initiative! @EdSustainable 🎓+🌍 Join us for our first #SustainableED webinar aimed at building a network to advance research on climate-smart schools. Tues 7/15 @ 1 pm ET buff.ly/xbcXnIF Please share!
📢New paper in the Economic Journal @EJ_RES: 👉Differences in patience can account for substantial regional variation in educational achievement within countries Data on Facebook interests allow us to derive regional measures of patience academic.oup.com/ej/advance-art… A🧵 1/9
The New Global Economy: Trade Wars and De-dollarisation? Submission deadline: 1 July 2025 Conference: 27-28 September 2025 Location: Cambridge, UK With Keynotes by @itskhoki and Sylvana Tenreyro @LSEEcon
#CallforPapers for the conference 'The New Global Economy: Trade Wars & De-dollarisation?' Deadline: 1 July Organisers: @MeredithCrowle1 @CamEcon, @LuHanEcon @bankofcanada, @MukhinDA @LSEnews, Ben Tomlin @bankofcanada More and submit your paper cepr.org/events/new-glo…
We're hiring! I'm looking for a PhD student in Economics (75%, E13) to join my team at TUM Campus Heilbronn starting Oct 2025. Work on field & survey experiments in applied micro, behavioral econ & econ of education. Deadline: June 30. Please share! Call: tinyurl.com/msdsrhv6
Looking forward!
Business Talk is delighted to welcome Professor @BenjaminArold, faculty member at @Cambridge_Uni's Faculty of Economics, as our distinguished guest on the upcoming podcast episode. In this episode, Professor Benjamin Arold shares valuable insights from his research, “The Value…
Thanks so much @NatalieIrmert for inviting me to the Applied Micro Seminar @EconomicsLund, it was great fun!
Thanks to @TheIFS for hosting me this week for their Annual Lecture. Check out: Trade Wars and the Future of Globalisation, featuring new work with Chuan-han Cheng @CamEcon, Giancarlo Corsetti @EUI_EU, and Lu Han @bankofcanada youtu.be/EPIATYktrRM
Great paper on differences and similarities of school textbooks used in state vs religious schools 👇
So excited to share new work with @emileigharrison about the presence and portrayal of topics, values, and identities in U.S. textbooks: What we teach in our curricula is more similar across our country than political narratives might have us believe. tinyurl.com/miiebooks
"Bildungsleistung durch Verbindlichkeit" Das neue Gutachten des Aktionsrat Bildung aktionsrat-bildung.de/fileadmin/Bild… (S+) Neues Gutachten des Aktionsrats Bildung: Fachleute fordern neuen Pisa-Vergleich der Bundesländer spiegel.de/panorama/bildu… via @derspiegel
1/6 Can AI-powered “enforcement bots” substitute for class actions? It turns out yes likely leading to major disruptions in the legal system.
🆕🔥 "Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles: Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap" w/ @ProfDavidDorn, @florian_schoner, @SeebacherMoritz & @thelisaksimon ifo.de/sites/default/… 🚀Skills from 9M LinkedIn profiles explain important labor-market patterns! 1/🧵
🚨Just published in the Annual Review of Economics @AnnualReviews: 👉Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital👈 annualreviews.org/content/journa… My review of what we know so far about the role of multidimensional skills for earnings 1/9
My paper "The Political-Economic Risks of AI" is now up: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3… Bottom line: AI has the potential to drastically concentrate the global economy, break democratic institutions, and tear the social fabric, causing a collapse in human productivity. Here is a video…
„Versetzungsgefährdet: Deutschland in der Bildungskrise“ Wirklich sehenswerte Doku 📺 in @DasErste jetzt in der #ARDMediathek Mein Part 1⃣: über Bildung und Wirtschaftswachstum (ab min 9:06) ardmediathek.de/video/story/ve… #ARDStory @ifo_Bildung
The beautiful walk to @DIW_Berlin from my hotel. Thanks so much @PeterHaan8 for the kind invitation to present at the Berlin Applied Micro Seminar, and @KinneLavinia and @MoritzLubczyk for the perfect organisation! @DIWECON
🚨CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference on Data Science and Law 8/5-8/6, New York City🚨 Have a work in progress at the intersection of data science and law? Join us at @FordhamLawNYC this summer! See submission details here: …ence-on-datascience-and-law.github.io