Benjamin is a research scientist in the Economics, Justice & Society department at NORC at the University of Chicago, with decade of experience conducting social science research. He joined as a research associate in 2014 and has subsequently worked on a wide range of field- and web-based projects. Benjamin has experience with the whole range of the survey lifecycle, from construct identification to questionnaire development and testing, cognitive interviewing and nonprobability data collection, data coding and validation, data analysis, and dissemination of public research files. He has also worked as a traveling field interviewer. His research focuses on how changes in mode of contact and mode of interview affect respondents, capturing the feel of the actual interview experience in data. 

Benjamin is currently the research lead for the General Social Survey, where he has shepherded the project through the transition from a face-to-face design to a multi-mode one over the course of 2020-2024. Benjamin supports behavioral economic research at NORC via his collaborations with the Lab for Economic Opportunities at Notre Dame, including projects related to the organization Friends of the Children, general basic income in Rochester, NY, and work placement with Catholic Charities in Los Angeles. Benjamin also works with the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare on their annual Insight Index.