Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education
The Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education (CBCSE) conducts research on the benefits and costs of alternative educational policies and interventions.
Education is a social investment that entails both costs and outcomes.
Too often assessments of educational alternatives either ignore their costs or calculate them in inappropriate ways. Similarly, benefits of education are often viewed too narrowly or measured inappropriately.
The Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education (CBCSE) conducts research on the benefits and costs of alternative educational policies and interventions.
Education is a social investment that entails both costs and outcomes.
Too often assessments of educational alternatives either ignore their costs or calculate them in inappropriate ways. Similarly, benefits of education are often viewed too narrowly or measured inappropriately.
The CBCSE brings together scholarship on both benefits and costs so that the full value of investments in education can be evaluated, and the most productive use of resources can be chosen.
The Center also undertakes cost-effectiveness studies to ascertain the types of educational interventions that will produce educational outcomes at least cost.