The Public Returns to Public Educational Investments in African-American Males

Autor/inn/en	Levin, Henry M.; Belfield, Clive; Muennig, Peter; Rouse, Cecilia
Titel	The Public Returns to Public Educational Investments in African-American Males
Quelle	In: Economics of Education Review, 26 (2007) 6, S.699-708 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-7757
DOI	10.1016/j.econedurev.2007.09.004
Schlagwörter	High Schools; Intervention; Taxes; Graduation Rate; Males; Cost Effectiveness; Academic Failure; High Risk Students; Dropout Prevention; Dropout Research + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; Oberschule; Abgabe; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Problemschüler
Abstract	This paper calculates the public savings (financial benefits) from greater public investments in the education of African-American males. Over one-fifth of each age cohort of black males in US is not a high school graduate. We identify five interventions that would--based on credible research--increase the graduation rate; we also report the public cost of each intervention. We then calculate the lifetime public benefits in terms of increased tax revenues and lower spending on health and crime. In present values, for a black male aged 20, these public benefits amount to $256,700 per new graduate and the median intervention would cost only $90,700. The benefit/cost ratio is 2.83. Simply equating the high school graduation rate of black males with that of white males would yield public savings of $3.98 billion for each age cohort. These results suggest that increased investments in education for black males at risk of dropping out of high school should be an economic priority. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10