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Ben Ost, PhD

Associate Professor

Economics

Contact

Building & Room:

718 UH

Address:

601 S Morgan St.

Office Phone:

(312) 996-3913

Email:

bost@uic.edu

CV Download:

Ben Ost CV

Related Sites:

Selected Publications

OK Boomer: Generational Differences in Teacher Quality. Journal of Public Economics, 2025. (with Nhu Nguyen and Javaeria Qureshi)

College Networks: The Importance of Employer Connections. Journal of Labor Economics, 2024. (with Weixiang Pan and Doug Webber)

Omitted variable bias in interacted models: A cautionary tale. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023. (with Ben Feigenberg and Javaeria Qureshi)

“The Returns to College for Marginal Students: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from University Dismissal Policies”  Journal of Labor Economics 2018, 36(3), 779-805. (with Weixiang Pan and Doug Webber)

“How do Teachers Improve? The Relative Importance of General and Specific Human Capital” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2014, 6(2): 127-151.

Education

PhD, Cornell University, 2011

Research Currently in Progress

Economics of Education, Labor Economics, Applied Econmetrics