Ben HymanSenior Researcher, Los Angeles
Ben Hyman is an economist and senior researcher at the California Policy Lab where he is part of the labor team at UCLA. Ben is helping build out CPL’s research agenda on AI and the Future of Work, as well as projects related to unemployment insurance and workforce development.
Ben has 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 workers displaced by trade and technology. Ben also studies policies targeted toward distressed local labor markets, including business location tax incentives and municipal debt market policies.
Ben received his Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and holds 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 CPL, Ben was an economist in the Research and Statistics Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for several years, and before that, a postdoctoral fellow at the Becker-Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago.