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Peter Arcidiacono

Peter Arcidiacono

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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38
Citations
8354
World Ranking
5853
National Ranking
2779

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Peter Arcidiacono is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research in the United States. Their research spans fields such as Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a focus on Education, Economics and Econometrics, Law, Sociology and Political Science, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Key topics of their work include:

  • School Choice and Performance
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • Legal and Constitutional Studies
  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
  • Innovations in Educational Methods
  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
  • Law, Rights, and Freedoms

Their recent published papers include:

  • "Ex Ante Returns and Occupational Choice," 2020, Journal of Political Economy
  • "The Competitive Effects of Entry: Evidence from Supercenter Expansion," 2020, American Economic Journal Applied Economics
  • "Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions," 2022, European Economic Review
  • "Equilibrium Grading Policies With Implications for Female Interest in STEM Courses," 2024, Econometrica (co-authored by Tom Ahn)
  • "College Attrition and the Dynamics of Information Revelation," 2024, Journal of Political Economy

Frequent collaborators include Tyler Ransom, Josh Kinsler, Arnaud Maurel, John Singleton, and Karthik Muralidharan. Their work has appeared extensively in the SSRN Electronic Journal as well as in journals like the Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Journal Applied Economics, European Economic Review, and Econometrica.

Peter Arcidiacono was recognized in 2018 as a Fellow of the Econometric Society. This designation reflects their involvement and contributions within their research communities.

Best Publications

  • Ability sorting and the returns to college major

    Peter Arcidiacono

  • Modeling college major choices using elicited measures of expectations and counterfactuals

    Peter Arcidiacono;V. Joseph Hotz;Songman Kang

  • The Analysis of Field Choice in College and Graduate School: Determinants and Wage Effects

    Joseph Altonji;Peter Arcidiacono;Arnaud Maurel

  • Affirmative Action in Higher Education: How do Admission and Financial Aid Rules Affect Future Earnings?

    Peter Arcidiacono

  • Beyond Signaling and Human Capital: Education and the Revelation of Ability †

    Peter Arcidiacono;Patrick Bayer;Aurel Hizmo

  • Peer effects in medical school

    Peter Arcidiacono;Sean Nicholson

  • University Differences in the Graduation of Minorities in STEM Fields: Evidence from California †

    Peter Arcidiacono;Esteban M. Aucejo;V. Joseph Hotz

  • CONDITIONAL CHOICE PROBABILITY ESTIMATION OF DYNAMIC DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS WITH UNOBSERVED HETEROGENEITY

    Peter Arcidiacono;Robert A. Miller

  • Finite Mixture Distributions, Sequential Likelihood and the EM Algorithm

    Peter Arcidiacono;John Bailey Jones

  • Affirmative Action and the Quality-Fit Trade-Off

    Peter Arcidiacono;Michael F. Lovenheim

  • College Attrition and the Dynamics of Information Revelation

    Peter Arcidiacono;Esteban Aucejo;Arnaud Maurel;Tyler Ransom

  • What happens after enrollment? An analysis of the time path of racial differences in GPA and major choice

    Peter Arcidiacono;Esteban M Aucejo;Ken Spenner

  • Practical Methods for Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models

    Peter Arcidiacono;Peter Arcidiacono;Paul B. Ellickson

  • LIVING RATIONALLY UNDER THE VOLCANO? AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF HEAVY DRINKING AND SMOKING

    Peter Arcidiacono;Peter Arcidiacono;Holger Sieg;Holger Sieg;Frank Sloan

  • Games and Discrimination Lessons From The Weakest Link

    Kate Antonovics;Peter Arcidiacono;Randall Walsh

  • CCP Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models with Unobserved Heterogeneity

    Robert Miller;Peter Arcidiacono

  • Estimating spillovers using panel data, with an application to the classroom

    Peter Arcidiacono;Gigi Foster;Natalie Goodpaster;Josh Kinsler

  • Does affirmative action lead to mismatch? A new test and evidence

    Peter Arcidiacono;Esteban M. Aucejo;Hanming Fang;Kenneth I. Spenner

  • Productivity Spillovers in Team Production: Evidence from Professional Basketball

    Peter Arcidiacono;Josh Kinsler;Joseph Price

  • THE ECONOMIC RETURNS TO AN MBA

    Peter Arcidiacono;Jane Cooley;Andrew Hussey

  • CCP Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models with Unobserved Heterogeneity

    Peter Arcidiacono;Robert A Miller

  • Beyond Signaling and Human Capital: Education and the Revelation of Ability

    Patrick J. Bayer;Peter Arcidiacono;Aurel Hizmo

  • Modeling College Major Choices using Elicited Measures of Expectations and Counterfactuals. NBER Working Paper No. 15729.

    Peter Arcidiacono;V. Joseph Hotz;Songman Kang

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick J. Bayer
Patrick J. Bayer Duke University
Jacob L. Vigdor
Jacob L. Vigdor University of Washington

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