Henry M. Levin -- Publications on Cost-Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness

Books:

Cost-Effectiveness and Educational Policy, with P. McEwan, eds (Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2002).

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Methods and Applications, Vol. 2, with P. McEwan.  (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2001).

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: A Primer. 13 Printings.  (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1983). 

Monographs:

The Cost Effectiveness of Whole School Reforms, Urban Diversity Series No. 114, ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education (Teachers College, Columbia University, May 2002).

The Building Blocks of a Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Integrated Services for Children At Risk.  (Paris: Center for Educational Research and Innovation, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), October 1994).

A Benefit-Cost Analysis of Nutritional Interventions for Anemia Reduction.  Technical Note 85-12.  (Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1985).

"A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Four Educational Interventions," with G. Glass and G. Meister, IFG Project Report No. 84-A11.  (Stanford, CA: Institute for Research on Educational Finance and Governance, 1984).  

The Costs to the Nation of Inadequate Education. A Report for the Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, U.S. Senate.  (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972). 

Articles:

"Cost-Benefit Analysis," Encyclopedia of Evaluation, Sandra Mathison, Ed. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications 2004), pp. 86-90.  Short entries on "Cost", p. 86, and "Cost-Effectiveness Analysis", p. 90.

"Cost-Effectiveness as an Evaluation Tool," with P. McEwan,  In T. Kellaghan & D. Stufflebeam (eds), International Handbook of Educational Evaluation (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003), Chap. 7.

"Cost-Effectiveness in Education," Encyclopedia of Education, Second Edition (Macmillan Reference, 2002), pp 495-498.

"Issues in Designing Cost-Effectiveness Comparisons of Whole School Reforms" In H. M. Levin and P. McEwan, Ed., Cost-Effectiveness Studies in Education, Yearbook of the American Educational Finance Association (Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2002), pp. 71-96.

"Waiting for Godot: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Education." In R. Light, (ed.), Evaluation Findings That Surprise in New Directions for Program Evaluation, No. 90 (Summer 2001), pp. 55-68 .

"Educational Vouchers: Effectiveness, Choice, and Costs," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.  Vol. 17, No. 3 (1998), 373-92.

"Costs of an Educational Voucher System," with C. Driver. Educational Economics.  Vol. 5, No. 3 (1997), 303-311.

"Cost-Benefit Analysis." In T. Husén and T. N. Postlethwaite, (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd Ed.  (Oxford, UK: Pergamon, 1994), 1127-1131.

"Cost-Effectiveness Analysis." In T. Husén and T. N. Postlethwaite, (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd Ed. (Oxford, UK: Pergamon, 1994), 1131-1135.

"Micronutrient Deficiencies," with E. Pollitt, R. Galloway, and J. McGuire. In D. T. Jamison,
W. H. Mosley, A. R. Measham, and J. L. Bobadilla, (eds.), Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries.  (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 421-454.

"Cost-Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Interventions for Children in Poverty." In A. Huston, (ed.), Children in Poverty.  (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 241-259.

"Cost-Effectiveness at Quarter Century." In M. McLaughlin and D. Phillips, (eds.), Evaluation and Education at Quarter Century, NSSE Yearbook.  (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), 189-209.

"Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Educational Policy." Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.  Vol. 10, No. 1 (Spring 1988), 51-69.

"Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Computer-Assisted Instruction," with G. Glass and G. Meister. Evaluation Review.  Vol. 11, No. 1 (February 1987), 50-72.

"Cost-Effectiveness of Computer-Assisted Instruction: Some Insights." In L. F. Lewis and B. Feinstein, (eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Courseware Evaluation and Design. (Ramat Gan, Israel: Israel Association for Computers in Education, 1987), 61-65.

"Is CAI Cost-Effective?" with G. Meister. Phi Delta Kappan.  Vol. 67, No. 10 (June 1986), 745-749.

"The Political Arithmetic of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis," with G. Glass and G. Meister.  Phi Delta Kappan.  (September 1986), 69-72.

"A Benefit-Cost Analysis of Nutritional Programs for Anemia Reduction." The World Bank Research Observer.  Vol. 1, No. 2 (July 1986), 219-245.

"Toward a Benefit-Cost Analysis of Anemia Reduction." American Behavioral Scientist.  Vol. 28, No. 4 (March/April 1985), 543-558.

"Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of Computer-Assisted Instruction." Public Budgeting and Finance, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring 1985), 27-42.  Also in J. A. Culbertson and L. L. Cunningham, (eds.),  Microcomputers and Education, 85th NSSE Yearbook, Part I.  (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986), 156-174.

"An Evaluation of the Costs of Computer-Assisted Instruction," with L. Woo. Economics of Education Review.  Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter 1981), 1-26.

"Cost Analysis." In N.L. Smith, (ed.), New Techniques for Evaluation. (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1981), Chapter 1.

"The Economic Costs of Flexible Education in the Health Professions," with C. Oliven, Flexible Education for the Health Professions, R. Jacobs, (ed.).  (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1976), Chapter 13.

"Cost-Effectiveness in Evaluation Research." M. Guttentag and E. Struening, (eds.), Handbook of Evaluation Research, Vol. 2. (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1975), Chapter 5.

"Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Instructional Technology: The Problems." In S.G. Tickton, (ed.), To Improve Learning:  An Evaluation of Instructional Technology, Vol. 2. (New York: R. R. Bowker, Co., 1971), 999-1005.

"A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Teacher Selection." Journal of Human Resources.  (Winter 1970), 24-33.