Peter Arcidiacono

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Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies

Department 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

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Links

• CV (PDF)
• Catholic Links

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Published Papers

• “Finite Mixture Distributions, Sequential Likelihood, and the EM Algorithm” with John B. Jones, Econometrica, Vol. 71, No.3 (May, 2003), 933-946 Simulation Appendix
• “The Dynamic Implications of Search Discrimination” Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 87, Nos.7-8 (August, 2003), 1681-1707
• “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
• “Ability Sorting and the Returns to College Major” Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 121, Nos. 1-2 (August, 2004), 343-375
• “Peer Effects in Medical School” with Sean Nicholson Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 89, Nos. 2-3 (February, 2005), 327-350
• “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
• "Affirmative Action in Higher Education: How do Admission and Financial Aid Rules Affect Future Earnings?" Econometrica, Vol. 73, No. 5 (September, 2005), 1477-1524
• “Games and Discrimination: Lessons from the Weakest Link” with Kate Antonovics and Randy Walsh, Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Fall, 2005)
• "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)
• “The Economic Returns to an MBA” with Jane Cooley and Andrew Hussey (PDF) forthcoming in International Economic Review
• “The Effects of Gender Interactions in the Lab and in the Field” with Kate Antonovics and Randy Walsh (PDF) forthcoming in Review of Economics and Statistics
• “Explaining Cross Racial Differences in Teenage Labor Force Participation: Results from a General Equilibrium Search Model” with Tom Ahn, Alvin Murphy and Omari Swinton (PDF) forthcoming in Journal of Econometrics

Working Papers

• “The Distributional Impacts of Minimum Wage Increases when Both Labor Supply and Labor Demand are Endogenous” with Tom Ahn and Walter Wessels (PDF) revise and resubmit at Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
• “Does the River Spill Over? Estimating the Economic Returns to Attending a Racially Diverse College” with Jacob Vigdor (PDF) revise and resubmit at Journal of Human Capital
• “Estimating Spillovers using Panel Data, with an Application to the Classroom” with Gigi Foster, Natalie Goodpaster, and Josh Kinsler (PDF) revise and resubmit at Econometrica
• “Habit Persistence and Teen Sex: Could Increased Access to Contraception have Unintended Consequences for Teen Pregnancies?” with Ahmed Khwaja and Lijing Ouyang (PDF)
• “Representation versus Assimilation: How do Preferences in College Admissions Affect Social Interactions?” with Shakeeb Khan and Jacob Vigdor (PDF) under review
• “CCP Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models with Unobserved Heterogeneity” with Robert Miller (PDF) under review
• “Beyond Signaling and Human Capital: Education and the Revelation of Ability” with Pat Bayer and Aurel Hizmo (PDF) under review

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