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The job application workshop generated a USD 10 per month earnings increase per worker at a one-off marginal cost of USD 18.20 per person, producing an impact-to-cost ratio that substantially exceeds conventional vocational training and cash transfer programs.
Policy interventions aiming to delay marriage and encourage female schooling often rely on costly direct cash transfers to households, which require massive funding compared to information-based market linkage programs [4].
Role model group sessions cost approximately 10% (1/10th) of individualized technical consulting while delivering identical US$30–US$50 monthly household income gains (~15% increase) 1 year post-program.
Marginal course delivery cost was $14.60 per student ($10 remote tutor, $2.10 platform, $2.50 hardware depreciation); $1,000 spent averts 2.20 STIs, yielding a cost per averted STI of $455 against a monetary benefit of $785 per averted STI (Benefit-to-Cost Ratio = 1.72).
The average cost per year of life saved by Community Health Promoters was US$65 in 2013, compared to baseline cost-effectiveness estimates for volunteer-based health programs ranging from US$82 to US$3,396 per year of life saved.
The remedial tutor program cost Rs. 107 ($2.25) per student per year and achieved a cost of $0.67 per standard deviation improvement in test scores, making it 5 to 7 times more cost-effective than computer-assisted learning ($15.18 per student per year).