Peter Arcidiacono
Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs & Education and Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Peter Arcidiacono is the Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs & Education and Professor at the School of Government and Policy at Johns Hopkins University.
Academic background
Peter Arcidiacono is a labor economist best known for his work in three areas: college major choice, affirmative action in higher education, and structural estimation of dynamic discrete choice models. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and the International Association of Applied Econometricians. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He served as an expert witness for the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court cases Peter Arcidiacono is a labor economist best known for his work in three areas: college major choice, affirmative action in higher education, and structural estimation of dynamic discrete choice models. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and the International Association of Applied Econometricians. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He served as an expert witness for the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court cases SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC, examining the role race played in the admissions process at both institutions. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999.