Estimating Average and Local Average Treatment Effects of Education when Compulsory Schooling Laws Really Matter

By Philip Oreopoulos. 2006

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science, Statistics and Probability

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Extrapolate-Ing: External Validity and Overidentification in the Late Framework (2010, neutral): “A pioneering effort in this direction is the Oreopoulos (2006) study of the economic returns to schooling.”
Earnings Returns to the British Education Expansion. (2011, methodology): “However, as pointed out by Oreopoulos (2006), it is reasonable to suppose that as the number of compliers becomes an increasingly large proportion of the sample, the LATE should converge towards the ATE.”
The higher returns to formal education for entrepreneurs versus employees (2012, positive): “This is not only the case when parental background variables are used as identifying instruments (Blackburn and Neumark 1993), but especially when changes in compulsory schooling laws are introduced such as in Angrist and Krueger (1991) or Oreopoulos (2006) (see Harmon et al. 2003: fig.”
Liquidity Constraints, Household Wealth, and Entrepreneurship Revisited (2012, background): “…in net housing equity are also less subject to the LATE criticism for small samples of the population affected by the instrument (as discussed by Oreopoulos, 2006) than the use of inheritance amounts or lottery winnings because of the relatively large fraction of the overall U.S. population…”
Selective Schools and Academic Achievement (2007, background): “…generate longer-run selective school impacts on earnings, based on both the evidence relating additional years of education to earnings (see, e.g., Oreopoulos 2006) and on the estimated earnings returns to advanced qualifications.45 It is not clear whether these course-taking effects would be as…”
Life-Cycle Earnings, Education Premiums, and Internal Rates of Return (2017, background): “…affected earnings in other countries, see, e.g., Angrist and Krueger (1991) and Oreopolous (2006) for the United States; Harmon and Walker (1995), Oreopolous (2006), Devereux and Hart (2010), and Devereux and Fan (2011) for the United Kingdom; Meghir and Palme (2005) for Sweden; and Oreopolous…”
Weak Identification in Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Designs (2016, neutral): “We reach similar conclusions when only focusing on the ten most cited paper in the list (Pitt and Khandker (1998); Hoxby (2000); Angrist (1990); (Van der Klaauw, 2002); Thistlethwaite and Campbell (1960); Greenstone and Gallagher (2008); Jacob and Lefgren (2004); (Oreopoulos, 2006); Card et al.”
Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship (2011, methodology): “Using data from 1950-2000 U.S. Censuses and changes in state-level compulsory schooling laws as instruments for educational attainment, Oreopoulos (2006) estimates that an additional year of school reduces disabilities limiting personal care or mobility by about 30% among 25-84 year-old…”
Do dropouts drop out too soon? Wealth, health and happiness from compulsory schooling (2007, methodology): “Details of the data extracts used in this paper are provided in Oreopoulos (2003, 2006).7 Wherever possible, I tried to maintain consistency in sample selection, school laws, and variable definitions across countries.”