Document Type
Working Paper
Date of this Version
1-2007
Abstract
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.
Keywords
returns to education, benefit-cost
Included in
Economics Commons, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, Education Economics Commons
Date Posted: 28 January 2022