The Annual Conference of the Early Childhood Social Impact Performance Advisors was held June 22-24 in Denver, Colorado.This is the third year this a major national conference on Pay for Success (PFS) social impact financing  has occurred. It is  the only such conferen...

In a recent consensus report on Advancing the Power of Economic Evidence to Inform Investments in Children, Youth, and Families, the National academies recognized the important role PEPR is playing to develop high-quality economic evidence and support its use. In the r...

In recent years, the U.S. federal government has invested approximately $463 billion annually in interventions that affect the overall health and well-being of children and youth, while state and local budgets have devoted almost double that amount. The potential retu...

Prevention advocates often make the case that preventive intervention not only improves public health and welfare but also can save public resources. Increasingly, evidence-based policy efforts considering prevention are focusing on how programs can save taxpayer resou...

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation through the National Prevention Science Coalition has funded a pilot project to evaluate the impact of a new model for supporting the use of prevention evidence for policymaking. This project will pilot the Research-to-Policy model'...

The prospect of improving "noncognitive" skills through intervention increases the need to understand how to represent them in evaluations. Economic assessment of such efforts rarely incorporates these factors, especially when a benefit-cost approach is employed. Progr...

The Journal of Benefit Cost Analysis has published a special issue on Benefit-Cost Analysis of Prevention and Intervention Programs for Youth and Young Adults. Dr. Margaret Kuklinski of the University of Washington's Social Development Research Group edited the issue....

The National Institue on Drug Abuse has funded a new multi-year project on optimzing prevention of early adult outcomes. The aims of this project grew out of efforts by the PEPR Network including proceedings at the White House's EEOB. Read more here.

In a new BCA of the Communities That Care program designed to determine whether the CTC prevention system is a cost-beneficial intervention, led by Dr. Margaret Kuklinski, researchers estimated that CTC produced over $4,000 in benefits per youth through grade 12. It c...