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Philip Oreopoulos

Philip Oreopoulos

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
55
Citations
20621
World Ranking
1040
National Ranking
24

Overview

Philip Oreopoulos is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and specializes in social sciences with a primary focus on education. Their research explores a broad range of topics within education, including school choice and performance, child development and digital technology, parental involvement in education, higher education research studies, early childhood education and development, crime patterns and interventions, and homelessness and social issues.

Oreopoulos has contributed significantly to academic literature with numerous publications. Some recent papers include:

  • Upgrading Education with Technology: Insights from Experimental Research, 2020, Journal of Economic Literature
  • The Impressive Effects of Tutoring on Prek-12 Learning: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Promise of Tutoring for PreK-12 Learning: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence, 2023, American Educational Research Journal
  • Improving non-academic student outcomes using online and text-message coaching, 2020, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Promises and Limitations of Nudging in Education, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

Their frequent co-authors include Noah Spencer, Adam Lavecchia, Chloe Gibbs, Andre Nickow, and Gustavo J. Bobonis, indicating collaboration with various researchers in related fields.

Oreopoulos's work is published across several venues, with notable frequency in AEA Randomized Controlled Trials and the SSRN Electronic Journal. Other venues where their research appears are the Journal of Economic Literature, American Educational Research Journal, and Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

Within their main field of Social Sciences, Oreopoulos's subfields of study encompass education, sociology and political science, developmental and educational psychology, general health professions, and demography. This indicates a multidisciplinary approach, integrating aspects of psychology, sociology, and health within educational research contexts.

Best Publications

  • The Role of Application Assistance and Information in College Decisions: Results from the H&R Block FAFSA Experiment*

    Eric P. Bettinger;Bridget Terry Long;Philip Oreopoulos;Lisa Sanbonmatsu

  • The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession

    Philip Oreopoulos;Till von Wachter;Andrew Heisz

  • Does education improve citizenship? Evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom

    Kevin Milligan;Enrico Moretti;Philip Oreopoulos

  • Priceless: The Nonpecuniary Benefits of Schooling

    Philip Oreopoulos;Kjell G. Salvanes

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

    Philip Oreopoulos

  • Why Do Skilled Immigrants Struggle in the Labor Market? A Field Experiment with Six Thousand Résumés

    Philip Oreopoulos

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

    Philip Oreopoulos

  • Incentives and Services for College Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

    Joshua Angrist;Daniel Lang;Philip Oreopoulos

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

    Philip Oreopoulos;Uros Petronijevic

  • The Long-Run Consequences of Living in a Poor Neighborhood

    Philip Oreopoulos

  • The Long-Run Consequences of Living in a Poor Neighborhood

    Philip Oreopoulos

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

    Philip Oreopoulos;Uros Petronijevic

  • The Intergenerational Effects of Worker Displacement

    Philip Oreopoulos;Marianne Page;Ann Huff Stevens

  • The Intergenerational Effects of Compulsory Schooling

    Philip Oreopoulos;Marianne E. Page;Ann Huff Stevens

  • The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession: Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates

    Philip Oreopoulos;Till von Wachter;Andrew Heisz

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

    Philip Oreopoulos;Kjell G Salvanes

  • Education Technology: An Evidence-Based Review

    Maya Escueta;Vincent Quan;Andre Joshua Nickow;Philip Oreopoulos

  • Education Technology: An Evidence-Based Review

    Maya Escueta;Vincent Quan;Andre Joshua Nickow;Philip Oreopoulos

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

    Robert W. Fairlie;Florian Hoffmann;Philip Oreopoulos

  • Behavioral Economics of Education: Progress and Possibilities

    Adam M Lavecchia;Heidi Liu;Philip Oreopoulos;Philip Oreopoulos

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

    Philip Oreopoulos;Uros Petronijevic

  • Leaving Boys Behind: Gender Disparities in High Academic Achievement

    Nicole M. Fortin;Philip Oreopoulos;Shelley A. Phipps

  • Information and College Access: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment*

    Philip Oreopoulos;Ryan Dunn

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan J. Auerbach
Alan J. Auerbach University of California, Berkeley
Enrico Moretti
Enrico Moretti University of California, Berkeley
Eric Bettinger
Eric Bettinger Stanford University
Kevin Milligan
Kevin Milligan University of British Columbia
Kjell G. Salvanes
Kjell G. Salvanes Norwegian School of Economics
David Card
David Card University of California, Berkeley
Bridget Terry Long
Bridget Terry Long Harvard University
Robert W. Fairlie
Robert W. Fairlie University of California, Los Angeles
Till von Wachter
Till von Wachter University of California, Los Angeles

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