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Esteban M. Aucejo

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Arizona State University
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Online Classes and Gig Jobs Help Balance School and Work
June 1, 2024 - Article
Author(s) - Esteban M. Aucejo, Spencer Perry & Basit Zafar
A growing share of US college students work part- or full-time to support themselves while studying, a trend that seems likely to continue as tuition costs rise and workers in sectors affected by technological change return to school to retrain and upskill. According to the US Department of...
Assessing the Costs of Balancing College and Work Activities: The Gig Economy Meets Online Education
April 2024 - Working Paper32357
Author(s) - Esteban M. Aucejo, A. Spencer Perry & Basit Zafar
Balancing the demands of work and schooling is a challenging task for an increasing number of students who have to pay their way through college and for workers who intend to upgrade their skills. However, flexible learning and working environments could play an important role in easing many...
Estimating Students' Valuation for College Experiences
March 2021 - Working Paper28511
Author(s) - Esteban M. Aucejo, Jacob F. French & Basit Zafar
The college experience involves much more than credit hours and degrees. Students likely derive utility from in-person instruction and on-campus social activities. Quantitative measures of the value of these individual components have been hard to come by. Leveraging the COVID-19 shock, we elicit...
The Impact of COVID-19 on Student Experiences and Expectations: Evidence from a Survey
June 2020 - Working Paper27392
Author(s) - Esteban M. Aucejo, Jacob F. French, Maria Paola Ugalde Araya & Basit Zafar
In order to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education, we surveyed approximately 1,500 students at one of the largest public institutions in the United States using an instrument designed to recover the causal impact of the pandemic on students' current and expected outcomes...
College Attrition and the Dynamics of Information Revelation
June 2016 - Working Paper22325
Author(s) - Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban Aucejo, Arnaud Maurel & Tyler Ransom
This paper investigates the role played by informational frictions in college and the workplace. We estimate a dynamic structural model of schooling and work decisions, where individuals have imperfect information about their schooling ability and labor market productivity. We take into account the...
University Differences in the Graduation of Minorities in STEM Fields: Evidence from California
February 2013 - Working Paper18799
Author(s) - Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban M. Aucejo & V. Joseph Hotz
The low number of college graduates with science degrees -- particularly among under-represented minorities -- is of growing concern. We examine differences across universities in graduating students in different fields. Using student-level data on the University of California system during a period...
Affirmative Action and University Fit: Evidence from Proposition 209
November 2012 - Working Paper18523
Author(s) - Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban Aucejo, Patrick Coate & V. Joseph Hotz
Proposition 209 banned the use of racial preferences in admissions at public colleges in California. We analyze unique data for all applicants and enrollees within the University of California (UC) system before and after Prop 209. After Prop 209, graduation rates increased by 4.4%. We present...
Does Affirmative Action Lead to Mismatch? A New Test and Evidence
April 2009 - Working Paper14885
Author(s) - Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban M. Aucejo, Hanming Fang & Kenneth I. Spenner
We argue that once we take into account the students' rational enrollment decisions, mismatch in the sense that the intended beneficiary of affirmative action admission policies are made worse off could occur only if selective universities possess private information about students' post-enrollment...
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