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Do Dropouts Drop Out Too Soon? International Evidence From Changes in School-Leaving Laws

Oreopoulos, Philip - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

This paper studies high school dropout behavior by estimating the long-run consequences to leaving school early. I measure these consequences using changes in minimum school leaving ages often introduced to prevent dropping out and compare results across the United States, Canada, and the United...

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Leaving Boys Behind: Gender Disparities in High Academic Achievement

Fortin, Nicole M.; Oreopoulos, Philip; Phipps, Shelley - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

1980s to the 2000s, the mode of girls' high school GPA distribution has shifted from "B" to "A", essentially "leaving boys … behind" as the mode of boys' GPA distribution stayed at "B". In a reweighted Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of achievement at … each GPA level, we find that gender differences in post-secondary expectations, controlling for school ability, and as …

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A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom

Fairlie, Robert W.; Oreopoulos, Philip; Hoffmann, Florian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Detailed administrative data from a large and diverse community college are used to examine if academic performance depends on whether students are the same race or ethnicity as their instructors. To identify racial interactions and address many threats to internal validity we estimate models...

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Ability, Gender, and Performance Standards: Evidence from Academic Probation

Oreopoulos, Philip; Lindo, Jason M.; Sanders, Nicholas J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

We use a regression discontinuity design to examine students' responses to the negative incentive brought on by being placed on academic probation. Consistent with a model of introducing performance standards in which agents respond differently based on ability, we find that being placed on...

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How large are returns to schooling? Hint: Money isn't everything

Oreopoulos, Philip; Salvanes, Kjell G - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

This paper explores the many avenues by which schooling affects lifetime well-being. Experiences and skills acquired in school reverberate throughout life, not just through higher earnings. Schooling also affects the degree one enjoys work and the likelihood of being unemployed. It leads...

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When Opportunity Knocks, Who Answers? New Evidence on College Achievement Awards

Angrist, Joshua; Oreopoulos, Philip; Williams, Tyler - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

70 for second-year students, but there was no significant effect on overall GPA. Results are somewhat stronger for a …

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Making College Worth It: A Review of Research on the Returns to Higher Education

Oreopoulos, Philip; Petronijevic, Uros - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Recent stories of soaring student debt levels and under-placed college graduates have caused some to question whether a college education is still a sound investment. In this paper, we review the literature on the returns to higher education in an attempt to determine who benefits from college....

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