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Benjamin Arold

@benjaminarold.bsky.social

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, @Cambridge. Before @ETH, @LMU_Muenchen, @ifo_Institut. Economics of Education, Labor, Public, Religion, and AI.

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The Janeway Institute, Cambridge @janewayinstitute.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

In a new Keynes Fund sponsored video, @benjaminarold.bsky.social asks: how much do employees really value the benefits they receive in employment? The data uncovers a surprising answer. #econsky #KeynesFund youtu.be/Mlfli5pvgHA?...

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How Much Do Employees Really Value their Work Benefits? | Keynes Fund Project | Benjamin Arold

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ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! @benjaminarold.bsky.social, @elliottash.bsky.social, W. Bentley MacLeod and Suresh Naidu study worker rights in collective bargaining and how legal protections shape bargaining outcomes and wage dynamics. 🔗 rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

And oh boy, "Adam's Research Minute" is a banger. The @benjaminarold.bsky.social, @woessmann.bsky.social, Zierow research on how schooling affects religiosity is super important and interesting. Here's the link to the journal article: jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl... 6/n

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Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes?

We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students’ religiosity as adults. We exploit the staggered termination of compulsory religious education across German states in model...

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Benjamin Arold @benjaminarold.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Religious education in school has long-lasting effects on adulthood religiosity and labor market success. 👇 See our new paper @ Journal of Human Resources:

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Benjamin Arold @benjaminarold.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

🚨New Working Paper: The Value of Worker Rights in Collective Bargaining w/ @elliottash.bsky.social , W. Bentley MacLeod & Suresh Naidu 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

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