Educational Cost-benefit Analysis - Education Research Paper No. 02 (DFID, 1993, 27 p.): (introduction...)

Educational Cost-benefit Analysis - Education Research Paper No. 02 (DFID, 1993, 27 p.)

		*(introduction...)*
		Executive summary
		1. Introduction
		2. Definition
		3. Development
		4. Methodology
		5. An alternative approach to rates-of-return
		6. Other techniques in educational planning
		7. Some cost-benefit results
		8. CBA in third world countries: Earlier findings
		9. CBA in third world countries: More recent studies
		10. Criticisms of CBA in third world countries
		11. The educational effectiveness literature
		12. The comparative education literature
		13. Towards a new approach to cost-benefit analysis
		Appendix 1: Project proposal
		Appendix 2: Returns to investment in education by level and country
		Appendix 3: Bibliography

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Professor J R Hough
Loughborough University

Serial No. 2
ISBN: 0 902500 62 7

Overseas Development Administration

The writer gratefully acknowledges assistance received from Dr. George Psacharopoulos, Ms. Maureen Woodhall, and the in-house education advisers at ODA, who made helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper.

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