Our Purpose, Mission, and History
To promote the rigorous and responsible development and application of cost-effectiveness and benefit cost methods.
Our History
The Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education builds on work that began in the 1970's and has pursued methodological improvements and new methods of analysis.
Our Mission
We are dedicated to improving education and human capital development by producing high quality evidence on the costs, effects, and economic benefits of policies and interventions. Our work span a wide range of topic areas including high school graduation, early child development, integrated school services, social and emotional learning, college completion, and many others. CBCSE also sponsors training programs in economic evaluation of education for researchers and decision-makers.
Our Team
CBCSE is a team of researchers from several different educational institutions. We collaborate with organizations such as education agencies, higher education institutions, local schools, and government organizations.
