Benjamin Arold

Benjamin W. Arold is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich, in the group of Elliott Ash. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from LMU Munich, and was a Visiting Doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University in 2019/2020. Benjamin obtained his Master's degrees from the London School of Economics and University College London.

He works at the intersection of Labor Economics and Public Economics, with a special focus on Education and Political Economy. One area of his research analyzes how school curricula shape student achievement, attitudes and beliefs, choices, and long-term labor market outcomes. Another line of his research focuses on policies and interventions reducing the effects of genetic and social inequality. He uses methods from applied microeconometrics, computational linguistics, and machine learning.

His 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.