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Ben HymanEconomist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

areas of expertise
  • Labor economics
  • Public finance
  • Urban economics
education
  • PhD, Applied Economics, University of Pennsylvania 
  • M.C.P., Urban and Regional Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • B.A., International Relations – Political Economy, University of Southern California

Ben Hyman is an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York with interests in labor economics, public finance, and urban economics. His primary research uses employer-employee matched data to analyze the effects of diverse social insurance and retraining incentives on displaced workers and the long-term unemployed. He also studies policies targeted toward distressed local labor markets, including business location tax incentives and municipal debt market policies. Prior to joining the Fed, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Becker-Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago

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