Ben Hyman Email & Phone Number

I am a Ph.D. economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York with expertise in labor economics, public finance, and urban economics. My primary research combines employer-employee matched administrative data with causal inference designs to analyze the effects of diverse social insurance and retraining incentives on displaced workers and the long-term unemployed. I also study policies targeted toward distressed local labor markets, including business location tax incentives and municipal debt market policies. I received my Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and hold a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a B.A. (Honors) from the University of Southern California. Prior to joining the Fed, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Becker-Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago. I am currently visiting UC Berkeley's Institute for Research in Labor and Employment (IRLE) as a Visiting Scholar in 2024.My research website: https://www.benhyman.com/