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Esteban Aucejo.

Esteban Aucejo

Associate

Expertise: labour economics, economics of education

Telephone:
+14809657350
Email:
esteban.aucejo@asu.edu
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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
Assessing the Heterogeneous Effects of Remedial Education

We analyze the effect of remedial math education on student outcomes by use of data from a large US public university and a regression discontinuity approach. Students with different math preparation levels are placed in... Read more...

Esteban M. Aucejo and Stephanie El Khoury

01 April 2025

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 March 2025

Journal article
The effect of feedback on student performance

This study examines the effect of scalable personalized feedback messages from professors on student performance in both synchronous and asynchronous classes, with a specific focus on first-generation students. We conduc... Read more...

Esteban M. Aucejo and Kelvin Wong

01 January 2025

Journal article
College Attrition and the Dynamics of Information Revelation

We examine how informational frictions impact schooling and work outcomes by estimating a dynamic structural model where individuals face uncertainty about their academic ability and productivity, which determine their s... Read more...

Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban M. Aucejo, Arnaud Maurel and Tyler Ransom

01 January 2025

CEP discussion papers
Assessing the costs of balancing college and work activities: The gig economy meets online education

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 learn... Read more...

Esteban M. Aucejo, Spencer Perry and Basit Zafar

12 November 2024

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
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

01 November 2022

Journal article
Teachers and the gender gap in reading achievement

Boys persistently lag behind girls in English/language arts. We find that heterogeneity in teachers’ 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

01 October 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

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

25 June 2020

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
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
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
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

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

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