The Economic Value of Social and Emotional Learning

By Sabine Zander, C. Belfield, Brooks Bowden, A. Klapp, Henry M. Levin, R. Shand, J. Bridgeland, Mark T. Greenberg, Damon Jones, Stephanie Lee and 1 more. 2015

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Creating Emotionally Intelligent Schools With RULER (2016, background): “Economists Belfield et al. (2015) estimated that benefits of evidence-based SEL programs, such as academic performance and positive social behavior, outweigh the costs by a ratio of 11 to 1.”
Universal Interventions: Fully Exploring Their Impacts and Potential to Produce Population-Level Impacts (2017, background): “savings of $11 for each dollar invested (Belfield et al., 2015), and the PATHS curriculum has been projected to save over $16 for each dollar invested (http://www.”
Advancing the Science and Practice of Social and Emotional Learning (2016, background): “For example, Belfield et al. (2015) determined that six SEL programs produced, on”
Social-Emotional Competence: An Essential Factor for Promoting Positive Adjustment and Reducing Risk in School Children. (2017, background): “Second, an economic review of seven SEL programs that have been replicated in multiple settings found they produced an average return of $11 for every dollar expended (Belfield et al., 2015).”
Social Emotional Learning in Schools: The Importance of Educator Competence (2021, background): “Belfield et al. (2015) reported the economic impact of an SEL curriculum as a return on investment is $11.00 for every $1.00 spent on SEL implementation in school districts.”
RULER: A Theory-Driven, Systemic Approach to Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning (2019, background): “…PSYCHOLOGIST, 54(3), 144–161, 2019 Copyright # 2019 Division 15, American Psychological Association ISSN: 0046-1520 print / 1532-6985 online DOI: 10.1080/00461520.2019.1614447 invested equally across the SEL interventions, there is a return of $11; Belfield et al., 2015).”
Promoting Positive Youth Development Through School-Based Social and Emotional Learning Interventions: A Meta-Analysis of Follow-Up Effects. (2017, background): “These findings build on a recent study examining the economic value of six SEL interventions that found for every dollar invested there was a return of 11 dollars (Belfield et al., 2015).”