The Price We Pay: Economic and Social Consequences of Inadequate Education

By C. Belfield, Henry M. Levin. 2008

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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A Machine Learning Framework to Identify Students at Risk of Adverse Academic Outcomes (2015, background): “Studies have shown that not graduating high school on time impacts a student’s future career prospects immensely [1, 18].”
Examining the Impact of Policy and Practice Interventions on High School Dropout and School Completion Rates (2015, background): “These outcomes are a serious concern at the individual level and carry a large “social cost” (Belfield & Levin, 2007; Catterall, 1987).”
The Economic Value of Opportunity Youth (2012, methodology): “Taking account of the costs of five specific programs that demonstrated effectiveness in reducing high school dropouts, it was estimated that the return on the investment of the taxpayer was as much as 3.5 times the cost for each additional high school graduate (Belfield & Levin 2007).”
The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality. Working Paper 56. (2010, background): “See, for example, Levin and McEwan (2001) and Belfield and Levin (2007).”
Longitudinal and Contextual Associations Between Teacher–Student Relationships and Student Engagement (2017, background): “Furthermore, it is estimated that the U.S. public benefit for each additional graduate is in excess of $200,000 as a result higher tax revenues and lower spending on health, crime, and welfare (Belfield & Levin, 2007; Henry et al., 2012).”
The Economic Payoff to Investing in Educational Justice (2009, methodology): “They included Clive Belfield, an economist at the City University of New York; Cecilia Rouse, a Princeton University labor economist; and Peter Muennig, a faculty member and health economics specialist at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.”
The Benefits of Attending Community College: A Review of the Evidence (2011, background): “A growing body of research has identified large benefits of education beyond those found in the labor market (e.g., Attewell & Lavin, 2007; Belfield & Levin, 2007).”