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. He received his 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, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Becker-Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago.