CEP | People | Esteban Aucejo

Biography

Dr Esteban Aucejo is an associate professor in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. His primary research focus is on economics of education, with a secondary interest in the field of labor economics. He has published in leading, peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Current areas of research include:

Economics of education: Matching effects in learning, willingness-to-pay for higher education, value-added in FE colleges.

Publications

Journal article - forthcoming

Estimating students' valuation for college experiences

Quantifying the consumption value of college - the utility students derive from in-person instruction and on-campus social activities - has been challenging. We leverage the COVID-19 shock to elicit students' intended li... Read more...

Esteban M. Aucejo, Jacob French and Basit Zafar

01 August 2023

Journal article

Where versus what: college value-added and returns to field of study in further education

We use administrative records on educational and labor market trajectories to estimate the value-added of English further education colleges in terms of educational and labor market outcomes and earnings returns to diffe... Read more...

Esteban M. Aucejo, Claudia Hupkau and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela

01 May 2023

Journal article - forthcoming

Teacher effectiveness and classroom composition: understanding match effects in the classroom

This paper provides evidence of match effects in the teacher labour market by considering how teacher effectiveness varies by classroom composition. We combine random assignment of teachers with rich measures of teaching... Read more...

Esteban M. Aucejo, Patrick Coate, Jane Cooley Fruehwirth, Sean Kelly and Zachary Mozenter

27 July 2022

Journal article - forthcoming

Teachers and the gender gap in reading achievement

Boys persistently lag behind girls in English/language arts. We find that heterogeneity in teachersâ€™ relative boy-specific value added could explain a large proportion of this gap. We exploit multifaceted measures of e... Read more...

Esteban M. Aucejo, Jane Cooley Fruehwirth, Sean Kelly and Zachary Mozenter

24 June 2022

Journal article

Does evaluation change teacher effort and performance? Quasi-experimental evidence from a policy of retesting students

We document measurable, lasting gains in student achievement caused by a change in teachers' evaluation incentives. A short-lived rule created a discontinuity in teachers' incentives when allocating effort across their a... Read more...

Esteban M. Aucejo, Teresa Romano and Eric S. Taylor

09 May 2022

Journal article

The path to college education: The role of math and verbal skills

This paper studies the formation of math and verbal skills during compulsory education and their impact on educational attainment. Using longitudinal data that follow students in England from elementary school to univers... Read more...

Esteban M. Aucejo and Jonathan James

01 October 2021

Journal article

Catching up to girls: Understanding the gender imbalance in educational attainment within race

We estimate a sequential model of schooling to assess the major contributing factors to the large gender imbalance in educational attainment within racial groups. First, we find that differences between males and females... Read more...

Esteban M. Aucejo and Jonathan James

01 June 2021

Journal article

The impact of COVID-19 on student experiences and expectations: Evidence from a survey

In order to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education, we surveyed approximately 1500 students at one of the largest public institutions in the United States using an instrument designed to recov... Read more...

Esteban M. Aucejo, Jacob French, Maria Paola Ugalde Araya and Basit Zafar

01 November 2020

Blog

What you study vs where you study: how FE choices affect earnings and academic achievement

CVER Research Papers

Where versus What: College Value-Added and Returns to Field of Study in Further Education

Enrolling in vocational education and training programs constitutes a natural response to the current dynamics of the labour market, which is being reshaped by routinisation, automation, and outsourcing. We estimate the ... Read more...

Esteban M. Aucejo, Claudia Hupkau and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela

23 June 2020

Journal article

Using global observation protocols to inform research on teaching effectiveness and school improvement: Strengths and emerging limitations [Uso de protocolos globais de observação em pesquisas sobre a eficácia do professor e melhoria da escola: Pontos for

An essential feature of many modern teacher observation protocols is their “global” approach to measuring instruction. Global protocols provide a summary evaluation of multiple domains of instruction from observers’ over... Read more...

Esteban M. Aucejo, Robert Bringe, Jane Cooley Fruehwirth and Sean Kelly

13 April 2020

CEP discussion papers

Does evaluation distort teacher effort and decisions? Quasi-experimental evidence from a policy of retesting students

Performance evaluation may change employee effort and decisions in unintended ways, for example, in multitask jobs where the evaluation measure captures only a subset of (differentially weights) the job tasks. We show ev... Read more...

Esteban M. Aucejo, Teresa Romano and Eric S. Taylor

01 April 2019

CEP discussion papers

Teacher effectiveness and classroom composition

This paper studies how the effectiveness of teachers varies by classroom composition, combining random assignment of teachers with rich measures of teaching practices based on a popular teacher-evaluation protocol. We fi... Read more...

Esteban M. Aucejo, Patrick Coate, Jane Cooley Fruehwirth, Sean Kelly and Zachary Mozenter

24 September 2018

Journal article

Identification and inference on regressions with missing covariate data

This paper examines the problem of identification and inference on a conditional moment condition model with missing data, with special focus on the case when the conditioning covariates are missing. We impose no assumpt... Read more...

Esteban M. Aucejo, Federico A. Bugni and V. Joseph Hotz

01 February 2017

Journal article

Assessing the effect of school days and absences on test score performance

While instructional time is viewed as crucial to learning, little is known about the effectiveness of reducing absences relative to increasing the number of school days. Using administrative data from North Carolina publ... Read more...

Esteban M. Aucejo and Teresa Romano

01 December 2016

Journal article

University differences in the graduation of minorities in STEM fields: Evidence from California

We examine differences in minority science graduation rates among University of California campuses when racial preferences were in place. Less prepared minorities at higher ranked campuses had lower persistence rates in... Read more...

Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban M. Aucejo and V. Joseph Hotz

01 March 2016

CEP discussion papers

Assessing the effect of school days and absences on test score performance

While instructional time is viewed as crucial to learning, little is known about the effectiveness of reducing absences relative to increasing the number of school days. In this regard, this paper jointly estimates the e... Read more...

Esteban M. Aucejo and Teresa Romano

26 September 2014

CEP discussion papers

University differences in the graduation of minorities in STEM fields: evidence from California

The low number of college graduates with science degrees - particularly among underrepresented minorities - is of growing concern. We examine differences across universities in graduating students in different fields. Us... Read more...

Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban M. Aucejo and V. Joseph Hotz

12 June 2013

CEP discussion papers

Affirmative action and university fit: evidence from Proposition 209

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 afte... Read more...

Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban M. Aucejo, Patrick Coate and V. Joseph Hotz

12 June 2013

CEP discussion papers

Racial segregation patterns in selective universities

This paper examines sorting into interracial friendships at selective universities. We show significant friendship segregation, particularly for blacks. Indeed, black friendships are no more diverse in college than in hi... Read more...

Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban M. Aucejo, Andrew Hussey and Kenneth Spenner

29 May 2013

CEP discussion papers

Explaining cross-racial differences in the educational gender gap

The sizable gender gap in college enrolment, especially among African Americans, constitutes a puzzling empirical regularity that may have serious consequences on marriage markets, male labor force participation and the ... Read more...

Esteban M. Aucejo

29 May 2013