Benjamin Arold
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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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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...

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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...
jhr.uwpress.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Religious education in school has long-lasting effects on adulthood religiosity and labor market success. 👇

See our new paper @ Journal of Human Resources:
🚨 Now out in Journal of Human Resources:

⛪️ Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes?
Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education

w/ @benjaminarold.bsky.social & Larissa Zierow

👉 Religious education in school affects adult lives

🔗 jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl...

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October 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM
🚨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

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March 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM