Peter Arcidiacono

Professor of Economics
Duke University
E-Mail: psarcidi at econ.duke.edu
Telephone: (919) 660-1816
Fax: (919) 684-8974
Office: 201A Social Sciences Building
Office Hours: By appointment

Links

Working Papers

• "Estimating Spillovers using Panel Data, with an Application to the Classroom" with Gigi Foster, Natalie Goodpaster, and Josh Kinsler Proofs for general class size and accumulation revise and resubmit at Quantitative Economics (updated December 19, 2011)
• “Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models in Continuous Time” with Pat Bayer, Jason Blevins, and Paul Ellickson (updated April 28, 2010)
• “Terms of Endearment: An Equilibrium Model of Sex and Matching” with Andrew Beauchamp and Marjorie McElroy (updated May 5, 2011)
• “What Happens After Enrollment? An Analysis of the Time Path of Racial Differences in GPA and Major Choice” with Esteban Aucejo and Ken Spenner (updated May 24, 2011)
• “Approximating High Dimensional Models: Sieve Value Function Iteration” with Pat Bayer, Federico Bugni, and Jon James (updated January 4, 2012)
• “The Effects of Proposition 209 on College Enrollment and Graduation Rates in California” with Esteban Aucejo, Patrick Coate, and Joe Hotz (updated January 5, 2012)

Published and Forthcoming Papers

• "Habit Persistence and Teen Sex: Could Increased Access to Contraception have Unintended Consequences for Teen Pregnancies?" with Ahmed Khwaja and Lijing Ouyang forthcoming in Journal of Business and Economic Statistics (updated January 31, 2011)
• “Does Affirmative Action Lead to Mismatch? A New Test and Evidence” with Esteban Aucejo, Hanming Fang, and Ken Spenner, Quantitative Economics, Vol. 2, No. 3 (November 2011), 303-333
• "Conditional Choice Probability Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models with Unobserved Heterogeneity" with Robert Miller, Econometrica, Vol. 7, No. 6 (November 2011), 1823-1868 (formerly titled “CCP Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models with Unobserved Heterogeneity”)
• “Practical Methods for Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models” with Paul Ellickson, Annual Review of Economics Vol. 3, September, 2011, 363-394
• “Modeling College Major Choice using Elicited Measures of Expectations and Counterfactuals” with Joe Hotz and Songman Kang forthcoming in Journal of Econometrics (updated February 11, 2011)
• "Representation versus Assimilation: How do Preferences in College Admissions Affect Social Interactions?" with Shakeeb Khan and Jacob Vigdor forthcoming in Journal of Public Economics (updated August 31, 2010)
• “Beyond Signaling and Human Capital: Education and the Revelation of Ability” (joint with Pat Bayer and Aurel Hizmo) AEJ: Applied Economics, Vol. 2, No. 4 (October 2010), 76-104
• “The Distributional Impacts of Minimum Wage Increases when Both Labor Supply and Labor Demand are Endogenous” with Tom Ahn and Walter Wessels, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 29, No. 1 (January, 2011), 12-23 Proofs
• “Does the River Spill Over? Estimating the Economic Returns to Attending a Racially Diverse College” with Jacob Vigdor, Economic Inquiry, Vol 47, No. 3 (July, 2010)
• “Explaining Cross-Racial Differences in Teenage Labor Force Participation: Results from a Two-Sided Matching Model” with Tom Ahn, Alvin Murphy and Omari Swinton, Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 156, No. 1 (May, 2010)
• “The Effects of Gender Interactions in the Lab and in the Field” with Kate Antonovics and Randy Walsh, Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 91, No. 1 (February, 2009)
• “The Economic Returns to An MBA” with Jane Cooley and Andrew Hussey, International Economic Review, Vol. 49, No. 3 (August 2008), 873-899
• “Living Rationally Under the Volcano? An Empirical Analysis of Heavy Drinking and Smoking” with Holger Sieg and Frank Sloan, International Economic Review, Vol. 48, No. 1 (February, 2007)
• “Games and Discrimination: Lessons from the Weakest Link” with Kate Antonovics and Randy Walsh, Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Fall, 2005)
• “Affirmative Action in Higher Education: How do Admission and Financial Aid Rules Affect Future Earnings?” Econometrica, Vol. 73, No. 5 (September, 2005), 1477-1524
• “Do People Value Racial Diversity? Evidence From Nielsen Ratings” with Eric Aldrich and Jacob Vigdor, Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2005), Article 4
• “Peer Effects in Medical School” with Sean Nicholson, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 89, Nos. 2-3 (February, 2005), 327-350
• “Ability Sorting and the Returns to College Major” Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 121, Nos. 1-2 (August, 2004), 343-375
• “Paying to Queue: A Theory of Locational Differences in Nonunion Wages” with Tom Ahn, Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 55, No. 3 (May 2004), 564-579
• “The Dynamic Implications of Search Discrimination” Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 87, Nos.7-8 (August, 2003), 1681-1707
• “Finite Mixture Distributions, Sequential Likelihood, and the EM Algorithm” with John B. Jones, Econometrica, Vol. 71, No.3 (May, 2003), 933-946 Simulation Appendix