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public_finance

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Policy & public sectorPublic Cost-Benefit Valuation of Policy RegimesThe intensified activation policy regime generated a net societal economic value of €2,000 per exposed unemployed individual, excluding macro general equilibrium effects.Observational Study EducationRule-Based vs Discretionary School FundingPredictable rule-based grants had no correlation with test score gains (-0.024 SD in English, -0.010 SD in math), whereas receiving unpredictable discretionary grants (median ~$3/student) significantly increased test scores by 0.103 SD in English (p < 0.05) and 0.096 SD in math (p < 0.10).Observational Study Policy & public sectorSocial Cost-Benefit Asymmetry in Youth Crime PreventionPreventing 34 arrests per 1,000 at-risk youth yields $652 to $1,250 in crime reduction savings per participant, directly offsetting 46.5% to 89.4% of total program cost ($1,403) during the summer alone. For low-risk youth, social savings from averted crime total only $2 to $3 per participant.RCT