Economic Evaluation in Education

3rd Edition

Cost-Effectiveness and Benefit-Cost Analysis

Henry M. Levin; Patrick J. McEwan; Clive Belfield; A. Brooks Bowden; Robert Shand
eISBN-13: 9781483381817

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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.

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ISBNs 9781483381794, 1483381811, 9781483381824, 9781483381800, 9781483381800, 9781483381817, 9781483381800
Language English
Number of Pages 376
Edition 3rd