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Arnaud Maurel

Associate Professor of Economics
Economics
Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708
225 Social Sciences, Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708-0097

Overview


Professor Maurel’s research focuses on labor economics/education and microeconometrics. Most of his non-methodological work lies at the intersection between the economics of education and labor economics, with a focus on post-secondary education demand and occupational choices. On the methodological side, his research is concerned with the identification and estimation of selection and treatment effect models, as well as models of occupational choice and job search, and on data combination issues applied in particular to subjective expectations data. His most recent work has been published in such journals as the Journal of Political Economy,Journal of Labor Economics, Quantitative Economics, Journal of Econometrics and the Review of Economics and Statistics. He has received several research awards, notably the 2015 Dennis J. Aigner Award for the most significant contribution in empirical econometrics published by the Journal of Econometrics in 2013-2014. He is also a Research Associate at the NBER (Labor Studies) and IZA, a Co-Editor of Annals of Economics and Statistics, and Associate Editor at Quantitative Economics and the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. 

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Associate Professor of Economics · 2020 - Present Economics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Faculty Research Scholar of DuPRI's Population Research Center · 2010 - Present Duke Population Research Center, Duke Population Research Institute

In the News


Published October 27, 2015
Maurel Wins 2015 Dennis J. Aigner Award
Published June 6, 2014
Attention grads: Being overeducated for your first job can hurt your career

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Recent Publications


Partially Linear Models under Data Combination

Journal Article Review of Economic Studies · January 1, 2025 We study partially linear models when the outcome of interest and some of the covariates are observed in two different datasets that cannot be linked. This type of data combination problem arises very frequently in empirical microeconomics. Using recent to ... Full text Cite

Changes across cohorts in wage returns to schooling and early work experiences

Journal Article Journal of Labor Economics · October 1, 2021 Featured Publication This paper investigates the wage returns to schooling and actual early work experiences and how these returns have changed over the past 20 years. Using the NLSY surveys, we develop and estimate a dynamic model of the joint schooling and work decisions tha ... Full text Cite

Rationalizing rational expectations: Characterizations and tests

Journal Article Quantitative Economics · July 2021 Featured Publication In this paper, we build a new test of rational expectations based on the marginal distributions of realizations and subjective beliefs. This test is widely applicable, including in the common situation where realizations and beliefs are observed in ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


CCP Estimation of Continuous -Time Job Search Models

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2023

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Education, Training & Certifications


Paris School of Economics (France) · 2010 Ph.D.

External Links


Personal Website