Benjamin W. Arold is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich and earned his Ph.D. in Economics from LMU Munich. He has also held visiting positions at Harvard University and Princeton University.

He is an applied microeconomist with research interests in labor economics, the economics of education, the economics of religion, and AI & economics. One strand of his research investigates how school curricula influence student achievement, attitudes, beliefs, choices, and long-term labor market outcomes. Another line of his work employs tools from artificial intelligence, natural language processing (NLP), and computational linguistics to examine the effects of economic policies and educational interventions on employees and students.

His Ph.D. thesis was awarded the Prize for Best Dissertation in 2021/2022 by the German Economic Association's Section on Economics of Education, and he received the Fürther Ludwig Erhard Prize in 2023.