Economic Analysis as a Tool for Early Intervention Research

Barnett, W.S. (1985). Benefit-cost analysis of the Perry Preschool program and its policy implications. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 7(4), 333-342.

Barnett, W.S. (1986). Methodological issues in economic evaluation of early intervention programs. Early Childhood Research Quarterly , 1(3), 249-268.

Barnett, W.S. , & Escobar, C.M. (1987). The economics of early intervention: A review . Review of Educational Research, 57(4), 387-414.

Barnett, W.S. , & Escobar, C.M. (1988). The economics of early intervention for handicapped children: What do we really know? Journal of the Division for Early Childhood, 12(2), 169-181.

Barnett, W.S. , & Escobar, C.M. (in press). Economic costs and benefits of early intervention. In S. J. Meisels & J. P. Shonkoff (Eds.), Handbook of early intervention: Theory, practice, and analysis. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Berrueta-Clement, J.R. , Schweinhart, L.J. , Barnett, W.S. , Epstein, A.S. , & Weikart, D.P. (1984). Changed lives: The effects of the Perry Preschool Program on youths through age 19. Ypsilanti, MI: High/Scope .

Dasgupta, P. , Marglin, S. , & Sen, A. (1972). Guidelines for project evaluation. New York: United Nations Industrial Developmental Organization .

Haveman, R. , & Wolfe, B. (1984). Schooling and economic well-being: The role of non-market effects. Journal of Human Resources, 19(3), 377-407.

Hook, S. (Ed). (1967). Human values and economic policy. New York: New York University Press.

Kagan, S.L. , & Neugebauer, R. (1983). How's business? Trends in child care across the country. Child Care Information Exchange , (Sept.-Oct.), 17-24.

Levin, H. (1983). Cost-effectiveness: A primer. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

Levin, H.M. (1975). Cost-effectiveness in evaluation research. In M. Guttentag and E. Struening (Eds.), Handbook of evaluation research (Vol. 2, 89-122). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

Michan, E.J. (1976). Cost-benefit analysis. New York: Praeger.

Pearce, D.W. , & Nash, C.A. (1981). The social appraisal of projects: A text in cost-benefit analysis. New York: Wiley.

Ramey, C.T. , MacPhee, D. , & Yeates, K.O. (1982). Preventing developmental retardation: A general systems model. In L. A. Bond & J. M. Joffe (Eds.), Facilitating infant and early childhood development (pp. 345-401). Hanover, NH : University Press of New England.

Rothenberg, J. (1975). Cost-benefit analysis: A methodological exposition . In M. Guttentag and E. Struening (Eds.), Handbook of evaluation research (Vol. 2, 55-58). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

Sameroff, A.J. (1983). Developmental and systems theory: Contexts and evolution. In P. Mussen (Ed.), Handbook of child psychology, Vol. 1, history, theory, and methods (pp. 263-288). New York: J. Wiley & Sons.

Sen, A. (1979). Personal utilities and public judgments: Or what's wrong with welfare economics. The Economic Journal, 89, 537-558.

Shonkoff, J.P. , & Hauser-Cram, P. (1987). Early intervention for disabled infants and their families: A quantitative analysis. Pediatrics, 80(5), 650-658.

Shrader-Frechette, K.S. (1985). Science policy, ethics, and economic methodology . Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel .

Smith, B. , & Strain, P. (1984). The argument for early intervention. ERIC Information Service Digest. Reston, VA: ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children.

Thompson, M.A. (1980). Benefit-cost analysis for program evaluation. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

Tribe, L.H. (1972). Policy science: Analysis or ideology. In. W. Niskanen , A. Harberger , R. Turvey , & R. Zeckhauser (Eds.), Benefit-cost and policy analysis. Chicago, IL: Aldine.

Weiss, R. (1981). INREAL intervention for language handicapped and bilingual children. Journal of the Division for Early Childhood , 4, 40-51. '

Williams, A. (1972). Cost-benefit analysis: Bastard science? And/or insidious poison in the body politick? Journal of Public Economics , 1, 199-225.

U. S. House of Representatives. (1986). Report from the Committee on Education and Labor on the Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments of 1986. (No. 99-860). Washington, DC: USGPO.