Benjamin Arold
@benjaminarold
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, @cambridge_uni. Before @ETH, @LMU_Muenchen, @ifo_Institut.
Labor/Education, Public, Religion, and AI & Economics
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I'm interested in the ways that families use private resources to supplement or substitute for public schooling. So I'm thrilled that our (cleverly titled?) paper "Kumon In: The Recent, Rapid Rise of Private Tutoring Centers" has been conditionally accepted by Education Finance & Policy.
Today in The Economist: Special report on Schooling’s stagnation "A mass of research shows that developing brainiacs is the most reliable and lasting way to stoke economic growth." economist.com/special-report… "Schools in rich countries … need to get back to basics"
Excited that “Religion and Growth” will be out in the next issue of JEL! (Sascha O. Becker Ludger Woessmann) Two threads on our survey: x.com/woessmann/stat… x.com/jaredcrubin/st…
Studying the text of collective bargaining agreements — Elliot Ash, Bentley Macleod, Dr Suresh Naidu, Ben arold. Very creative way of measuring job amenities!
Learned so much when writing this survey (on a tragic topic) with the amazing Andy Ferrara
¿Cómo medir si un adolescente cree que su inteligencia está fija o puede crecer? Lo hacen para país en vías de desarrollo por primera vez. Validan machine learning que interpreta SMS. Elliott Ash Benjamin Arold Jairo F. Gudiño-Rosero Ana Trindade Ribeiro en J Res Adolesc pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39166447/
Today is my last day as postdoc ETH Zürich. Thanks a ton to Elliott Ash and all team members of the ETH Center for Law & Economics for two fantastic years. I could not have had a better postdoc experience! Next step: Cambridge University
Our VoxEU column summarizing our (Sascha O. Becker Ludger Woessmann) recent JEL piece “Religion and Growth” cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…