Educational Cost Benefit Analysis

The past decade has seen increased attention to cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analysis in education as administrators are being asked to accomplish more with the same or even fewer resources, philanthropists are keen to calculate their "return on investment" in social programs, and the general public is increasingly scrutinizing how resources are allocated to schools and colleges. This text (titled Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in its previous editions) is the only full-length book to provide readers with the step-by-step methods they need to plan and implement a benefit-cost analysis in education. The authors examine a range of issues, including how to identify, measure, and distribute costs; how to measure effectiveness, utility, and benefits; and how to incorporate cost evaluations into the decision-making process. The updates to the Third Edition reflect the considerable methodological development in the evaluation literature, and the greater empiricism practiced by education researchers, to help readers learn to apply more advanced methods to their own analyses. SAGE congratulates author Henry M. Levin, winner of the 2017 AERA Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award.

This Yearbook provides a unique and original assessment of the state of the art of cost-effectiveness analysis in education. It identifies key issues that need to be considered and presents original empirical studies to serve as models.

L'ouvrage tente d'examiner si les investissements en matière d'éducation correspondent aux bénéfices qu'on en retire et si les plans d'éducation dans le Nigéria indépendant reflètent les théories concernant l'investissement.