Making College Worth it: A Review of Research on the Returns to Higher Education
By Philip Oreopoulos, Uros Petronijevic. 2013
223 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/52e7d79e41b14552993bda06b20455281b7d5d4d
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In Economics and Econometrics
- Ludger Woessmann
- Mary K. Hamman
- Philip Oreopoulos
- Eric A. Hanushek
- C. Diebolt
- Steven G. Rivkin
- R. Hippe
- Yves Zenou
In Education
- Ludger Woessmann
- Adam M. Lavecchia
- Philip Oreopoulos
- Eric A. Hanushek
- Ludger Wößmann
- Andrew G. Meyer
- Daniel M. Hungerman
- Lance Lochner
Citations in the corpus
- College Major, Internship Experience, and Employment Opportunities: Estimates from a Résumé Audit (2016, background): “The existing literature focuses on the effects of college attendance, university quality, and degree choice on labor-market outcomes (e.g., Oreopoulos and Petronijevic 2013; Altonji, Blom, and Meghir 2012).”
- Behavioral Economics of Education: Progress and Possibilities (2015, unknown): “99 Lochner and Monge-Naranjo, 2012; Oreopoulos and Petronijevic, 2013.”
- Gainfully Employed? (2016, unknown): “…effects generated by four-year college attendance averages about 10–15 percent per year (for example, Card 2001; Goldin and Katz 2008; Oreopoulos and Petronijevic 2013).8 Returns appear to be similar for community college associate’s degree programs—generally between 7 and 15…”
- The economic case for education† (2016, background): “See Oreopoulos and Petronijevic (2013) for a recent review of returns to higher education in the USA.”
- The Labor Market Returns to a For-Profit College Education (2014, unknown): “More recent and better-identified lyses reveal higher returns for college attendance, raging 10–15% per year (Card, 2001; Goldin & Katz, 8; Oreopolous & Petronijevic, 2013).”
- Pathways to Education: An Integrated Approach to Helping At-Risk High School Students (2017, background): “Using afinancial return to high school completion of 20 percent and a return to enrolling in college for marginal students of 22 percent (Oreopoulos and Petronijevic 2013), the benefit-to-cost ratio from Pathways eligibility across all sites is 3.92.30 For the Rexdale/LH expansion sites, the…”