Review of Cost-Benefit Analyses

The HCRC is systematically assessing the knowledge base in the following areas:

• Prenatal and infant development
• Family-centered approaches
• Preschool and prekindergarten
• Kindergarten and early school-age
• Adolescent programs

Specific projects include:

1. Conducting research syntheses of cost-benefit analyses for new and established programs across the first decade of life;
2. Conducting the age 27 cost-benefit analysis of the Chicago Child-Parent Center Program;
3. Identifying early indicators of child outcomes (e.g., test scores, social adjustment, truancy) that can predict the likely cost-effectiveness of programs, and
4. Joint analyses using data from existing national and local studies.

Cost-Benefit Studies and Resources:

• Abecedarian Cost-Benefit Analysis
• High/Scope Cost Benefit Analysis
• Child-Parent Centers Cost Benefit Analysis