Tag
cost_effectiveness
8 findings
Labour & employmentCost-Effective ALMP InterventionsThe 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.RCTHealthBundled Psychiatric Care and Livelihoods AssistanceCombined PC/LA reduced depression symptoms by 0.26 standard deviations and sustained improvements post-program, proving 3.5 times more effective while costing only 5 percent more than standalone PC (US$232 versus US$221 per individual).RCTLabour & employmentAsymmetric Cost-Effectiveness in Active Labor Market PoliciesThe application workshop generates a **20% long-run wage gain** at an extremely low unit cost, placing its impact-to-cost ratio near the top of documented global ALMP interventions compared to expensive multi-hundred-dollar training or cash grant schemes.RCTDevelopmentCost-Effectiveness of Market Incentive Information vs Cash TransfersThe recruiting intervention cost $12 per target individual and reduced early marriage/fertility by 5.1–5.7 percentage points with a 5.0 percentage point gain in schooling, whereas unconditional cash transfers in Malawi cost $100+ per household to reduce marriage/fertility by 6.7–7.9 percentage points with no statistically significant schooling gain.RCTHealthSTI Prevention Benefit-Cost OptimizationMarginal 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).RCTHealthCost-Effectiveness of Incentivized Health DeliveryThe 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.RCTEducationMulti-Faceted Bundle Replication Trade-OffCUNY ASAP nearly doubled graduation rates (18 percentage point increase) at an additional cost of $16,284 per student ($42,065 total three-year program cost), whereas Stay the Course achieved a 31.5 percentage point female degree increase at $5,640 per student.RCTEducationParaprofessional Remediation Cost-EffectivenessThe 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).RCT