The Costs and Benefits of an Excellent Education for All of America´s Children

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Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education
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returns to education
benefit-cost
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Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
Education Economics
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Levin, Henry M.
Belfield, Clive R.
Muennig, Peter
Rouse, Cecilia
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We find that an investment of $82,000 in powerful educational interventions and additional years of schooling would yield a public benefit of $209,000 in higher government revenues and lower government spending. The net economic benefit to the public purse is therefore $127,000 per student and the benefits are 2.5 times greater than the costs.

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2007-01-01
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