Clive Belfield is professor of economics, Queens College, City University of New York. He is also principal economist at the Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education, University of Pennsylvania, and a research associate at the Community College Research Center, Columbia University. Professor Belfield’s area of expertise is economic evaluation; his research has focused on the design and analysis of cost effectiveness and benefit–cost calculations for education interventions. He has taught graduate courses on benefit-cost analysis at Claremont Graduate University, Rutgers University, and the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. He is a coauthor on the third edition of the primary cost-effectiveness textbook, Economic Evaluation in Education: Cost-Effectiveness and Benefit-Cost Analysis, and has published widely on the policy issues related to benefit–cost analysis. In applied work for research agencies and government agencies, Professor Belfield studies the economic outcomes from education and undertakes evaluations of educational interventions that range from those that increase preschool enrollment to those that increase college completion rates.
