Do dropouts drop out too soon? Wealth, health and happiness from compulsory schooling

By Philip Oreopoulos. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Sociology and Political Science

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Economic Returns to Education: What We Know, What We Don't Know, and Where We Are Going Some Brief Pointers (2011, unknown): “Oreopoulos (2007) finds that in addition to increasing lifetime wealth by approximately 15 percent, an additional year of schooling reduces the likelihood of being in poor health, being unemployed and being unhappy. Dickson and Smith (2011) explore the return to education in terms of employment outc”
Choices, situations, and happiness (2008, methodology): “And Oreopoulos (2007) performs a similar exercise, finding that English teenagers who can be statistically identified as having stayed an extra year in school solely because of a change in school-leaving laws were substantially better off in a variety of economic and cultural dimensions, and in…”
Into College, out of Poverty? Policies to Increase the Postsecondary Attainment of the Poor. NBER Working Paper No. 15387. (2009, background): “This is on the low end of instrumental variable rates of return to schooling, and is well below the rate of return estimated for recent cohorts (Angrist and Krueger 1991; Kane and Rouse 1995; Oreopoulos 2007.)”
The Crime Reducing Effect of Education (2010, unknown): “Oreopoulos (2007) summarizes a sample of studies from the from psychological and neurological literatures, concluding that young people who drop out of school tend to be myopic and more focussed on immediate costs from schooling (stress from taking tests, uninteresting curricula, foregone earnings,…”
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance. NBER Working Paper No. 18165. (2012, unknown): “, and Oreopoulos, P. (2009). Incentives and services for college achievement: Evidence from a randomized trial.”
The Lengthening of Childhood: NBER Working Paper No. 14124. (2008, unknown): “These reductions in education have been shown to decrease life expectancy (Lleras-Muney, 2005), happiness (Oreopoulos, 2007), and civic participation (Dee, 2004; Milligan, Moretti, and Oreopoulos, 2004), as well as to increase crime rates (Lochner and Moretti, 2004), and earnings.”
2008-2 Earnings Functions and Rates of Return (2008, background): “This is an important task which can only be done using richer microdata.42 42See Oreopoulos (2007) and Heckman and Urzua (2008) for analyses of this question.”
Social Experiments in the Labor Market (2016, unknown): “In any event, this sort 48 For some exceptions, see, Lemieux and MacLeod (2000), DellaVigna and Paserman (2005), Oreopoulos (2007); more recently, Chan (2014) examines the role of time-inconsistency in the context of the randomized evaluation of Florida Transition Program.”
The effect of education on poverty: A European perspective (2021, background): “…to experience any limitations in activities because of health problems49, but no significant changes in the likelihood to suffer from any chronic illness or condition.50 These findings resemble the results in Oreopoulos (2007) on selfreported health and disabilities that limit daily activities.”