Research Article
The Societal Benefits and Costs of School Dropout Recovery
Table 7
Benefit-cost ratios of alternative dropout prevention programs.
| Program | Cost per success | Benefit-cost ratio |
| First things first | $59,100 | 3.54 | Chicago parent-child center | $67,700 | 3.09 | Teacher salary increase | $82,000 | 2.55 | Perry pre-school | $90,700 | 2.31 | Class size reduction | $143,600 | 1.46 | Estimates per Levin et al. [1] | | |
| OFY/OFL charter schools | $70,311 | 3.0 | (Dropout Recovery) | | |
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