Providing Comprehensive Educational Opportunity to Low-Income Students: What are the Social and Economic Returns?

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Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education
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Academic and Social Support Services
Comprehensive Student Support
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Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
Education Economics
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Belfield, Clive R
Hollands, Fiona M
Levin, Henry M
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This report estimates the economic costs and benefits attributable to a single cohort of 37,000 12th grade students in New York City public schools who come from families with incomes below 185% FPL. It calculates the net fiscal contributions by education level per individual. These contributions are tax revenues, minus government expenditures on healthcare, the criminal justice system, welfare programs, and school/college. The report also calculates the social impact of different educational attainment levels including the benefits of income gains, economic spillovers, reductions in crime, and improvements in health as education level increases.

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2011-01-01
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