Dr Ben Weidmann

Dr Ben Weidmann

Visiting Fellow

Department of Methodology

Languages
English
Key Expertise
Experimental design, Randomized controlled trials, Skill measurement

About me

Ben is an experimentalist whose current research focuses on building tools to measure teamwork and decision-making skills. He completed his PhD at Harvard in 2021, and holds masters degrees in statistics, research methods and education, along with bachelor degrees in economics and history. Prior to graduate school, Ben worked at the Grattan Institute in Australia and the Education Endowment Foundation in London.

Journal Articles

Journal and Articles

Weidmann, B., Vecci, J., Said, F., Deming, D.J. and Bhalotra, S.R., (2024), How Do You Find a Good Manager? (No. w32699). National Bureau of Economic Research.


Weidmann, B., Xu, Y., PAGE: A Modern Measure of Emotion Perception for Teamwork and Management Research, Working Paper [available here: https://tinyurl.com/52zttxrw]


Caplin, A., Deming, D. J., Leth-Petersen, S., & Weidmann, B. (2023). Allocative Skill (No. w31674). National Bureau of Economic Research.


Weidmann, B., and Deming, D.J., (2021), Team Players: How Social Skills Improve Team Performance. Econometrica, 89(6), pp.2637-2657.


Weidmann, B., & Miratrix, L., (2021), Missing, Presumed Different: Quantifying the Risk of Attrition Bias in Education Evaluations, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A


Weidmann, B., Allen, R., Coe, R., Thomson, D., (2021), Covid-19 disruptions: Attainment Gaps and Primary School Responses, Education Endowment Foundation


Weidmann, B., & Miratrix, L., (2020), Lurking Inferential Monsters: Quantifying Selection Bias in Evaluations of School Programs, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management