Author: Belfield, Clive R.
Title: High School Dropouts and the Economic Losses from Juvenile Crime in California
Summary: This paper estimates the economic loss from juvenile crime associated with not completing high school before age 18. Using results from three separate studies and applying their results for California, it finds the annual juvenile crime loss associated with high school dropouts at $1.1 billion. Finally, it compares the losses from juvenile crime with the costs of improving the education system and calculates that savings in juvenile crime along will offset approximately 16% of the costs of providing these interventions.
Details: Santa Barbara, CA: Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009. 55p.
Source: California Dropout Research Project Report #16
Year: 2009
Country: United States
URL:
Shelf Number: 116680
Keywords:
Cost-Benefit AnalysisCosts of CrimeEducationHigh School DropoutsJuvenile Crime |
Author: Perez-Arce, Francisco
Title: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program
Summary: Decades of research show that high school dropouts are more likely than graduates to commit crimes, abuse drugs and alcohol, have children out of wedlock, earn low wages, be unemployed, and suffer from poor health. The ChalleNGe program, currently operating in 27 states, is a residential program coupled with post-residential mentoring that seeks to alter the life course of high school dropouts ages 16-18. A rigorous evaluation of the ChalleNGe program employing random assignment has demonstrated that the program has positive effects on educational attainment and employment. The cost-benefit analysis presented in this document estimates that those and other program effects yield $25,549 ($2010) in social benefits per individual admitted to the program, or $2.66 in social benefits for every dollar expended for a return on investment of 166 percent. The program's benefits accrue mostly in the form of higher lifetime earnings attributable to higher levels of educational attainment induced by the program. Under baseline assumptions, this cost-benefit analysis suggests continued operation of existing ChalleNGe sites will yield substantial net benefits to program participants and society at large. This quantitative finding supports public investment in the ChalleNGe program as currently operated and targeted.
Details: Arlington, VA: RAND Corporation, 2012. 68p.
Source: Technical Report: Accessed April 15, 2012 at
Year: 2012
Country: United States
URL:
Shelf Number: 124967
Keywords:
Cost-Benefit AnalysisHigh School DropoutsIntervention Programs |
