Economic Evaluation in Education

Economic Evaluation in Education

Author: Henry M. Levin

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2017-06-15

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 148338179X

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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. Economic Evaluation in Education: Cost-Effectiveness and Benefit-Cost Analysis (titled Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Methods and Applications 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. Authors Henry M. Levin, Patrick J. McEwan, Clive Belfield, Alyshia Brooks Bowden, and Robert Shand 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.


Cost-effectiveness and Educational Policy

Cost-effectiveness and Educational Policy

Author: Henry M. Levin

Publisher: Eye On Education

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781930556331

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This Yearbook provides a unique and original assessment of the state of the art of cost-effectiveness analysis in education. It identifies key issues that need to be considered and presents original empirical studies to serve as models.


Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Author: Richard Cookson

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0198838190

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Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis aims to help healthcare and public health organizations make fairer decisions with better outcomes. It can provide information about equity in the distribution of costs and effects - who gains, who loses, and by how much - and the trade-offs that sometimes occur between equity and efficiency. This is a practical guide to methods for quantifying the equity impacts of health programmes in high, middle, and low-income countries. The methods can be tailored to analyse different equity concerns in different decision making contexts. The handbook provides both hands-on training for postgraduate students and analysts and an accessible guide for academics, practitioners, managers, policymakers, and stakeholders. Part I is an introduction and overview for research commissioners, users, and producers. Parts II and III provide step-by-step guidance on how to simulate and evaluate distributions, with accompanying spreadsheet training exercises. Part IV concludes with discussions about how to handle uncertainty about facts and disagreement about values, and the future challenges facing this growing field. Book jacket.


Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Author: Henry M. Levin

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780761919346

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Cost-effectiveness analysis allows researchers and evaluators to determine if a particular program or policy has attained maximum effectiveness for a given budget. This book introduces cost-effectiveness analysis and gives readers step-by-step methods to plan and implement a cost-analysis study. It explains and illustrates the four major techniques : cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit, cost-utility, and cost-feasibility. It discusses choice of analysis, implementation, the nature of costs (including how to identify, measure, and distribute costs); measuring effectiveness, utility, and benefits; and, lastly the difficulties of including cost evaluations in the decision making process. Each chapter ends with exercises that enable readers to sharpen their ability to evaluate policy options and program effectiveness.


Tools for Education Policy Analysis

Tools for Education Policy Analysis

Author: Jee-Peng Tan

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780821351833

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Annotation A training tool with several modules which include modeling worksheets. Training modules cover Assessing Policy Options for Teacher Training and Pay, Comparative Policy Analysis in Education, Management of Teacher Deployment and Classroom Processes and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Education.


Economic Evaluation in Education

Economic Evaluation in Education

Author: Henry M. Levin

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2017-06-15

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 148338182X

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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.


The Globalization of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy

The Globalization of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy

Author: Michael A. Livermore

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-02-21

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 019993438X

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This book argues in favor of using cost-benefit analysis globally and examines the positive impact it can have in developing countries using relevant case studies. The book discusses the potential for cost-benefit analysis to provoke a global shift toward stronger and more effective economic policies.


Cost-Effectiveness

Cost-Effectiveness

Author: Henry M. Levin

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated

Published: 1983-11

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13:

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In times of economic recession, cost-effectiveness and business evaluation assume a very important role in resource planning. All business ventures discover the need to maximize the utility of their limited supply of funds.Here Levin introduces to administrators and evaluators alike the principles a.