Economic costs and benefits of educating foreign students in the United States

AbstractThe Iran-United States Tribunal has recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. Although it has resolved all of the cases brought by private claimants, it is still likely to be many more years before the Tribunal is able to complete the remaining government-to-government cases on its docket. There are multiple reasons why so much time will be required: the pending cases are extremely complex, the governments brief them slowly, and the Tribunal's decision-making process itself is slow. There does not for the foreseeable future appear to be an alternative to continued litigation, because the prospects of a global settlement of the remaining claims before the Tribunal are remote. The parties face challenges in developing reasonable assessments of the legal and economic costs and benefits of settlement. Beyond this, the strained political relations between the United States and Iran would make even a legally and economically rationale settlement extremely difficult to achieve. The challenge facing the Tribunal in the remaining years of its existence, in which the Iran and United States are the only parties before it, is to continue to decide cases in a principled fashion on the basis of the law and the facts, and to resist the temptation to reach compromise decisions in the interests of political expediency.

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The Costs and Benefits of Foreign Students in United States Higher Education

Journal of Public Policy ◽

10.1017/s0143814x00002099 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 115-138 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Donald R. Winkler

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

United States ◽

Foreign Students ◽

Cost Benefit Analysis ◽

Cost Benefit ◽

The United States ◽

State Governments ◽

Costs And Benefits ◽

Net Benefit ◽

Us Government

AbstractThis paper makes a two-fold contribution to the practical application of cost-benefit analysis and to our understanding of the costs and benefits to the host country of foreign students in higher education. First, within the technical constraints it develops a model for assessing costs and benefits; this model is potentially applicable to all countries with foreign students. The model includes educational and political as well as economic inputs, and the paper discusses qualitative as well as quantitative costs and benefits. Secondly, the model is applied to the particular case of the United States. The significance of different perspectives for assessing net benefit is recognized, and costs and benefits are assessed from the perspectives of higher education institutions, state residents and all US citizens. The paper finds positive net benefits, subject to a number of assumptions. However, the policies of both state governments and the US government do not appear to be consistent with the goal of maximizing this net benefit.

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The Economic Impact of Andean Cocaine Traffic on Florida

Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs ◽

10.2307/166118 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 32 (4) ◽

pp. 137-160

Author(s):

Robert Grosse

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Economic Impact ◽

Additional Data ◽

The United States ◽

The State ◽

Costs And Benefits ◽

Economic Costs ◽

Economic Issues ◽

The Social

This study is intended to establish a framework for analyzing the economic impact of narcotraffic between Colombia, where most of the world's cocaine is refined, and the State of Florida, which is the primary area of entry for Andean cocaine into the United States. The purpose of the study is to analyze the economic costs and benefits of this activity to Florida, as an example that could be extended in both directions — to Colombia and to the entire United States—if additional data were to become available. Only the trade in cocaine is examined, though additional traffic in marijuana does take place and, in some cases, the data are not disaggregated for each drug. Only the economic impact is studied, though the trade obviously impacts the social and political realms as well. Because the tools of analysis are quite different among the disciplines, and because the economic issues need to be sorted out in any discussion of the overall impact of the cocaine trade, only economic issues are treated here.

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Costs and Benefits of Building Faster Payment Systems: The U.K. Experience and Implications for the United States

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2564144 ◽

2014 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Claire Greene ◽

Marc Rysman ◽

Scott D. Schuh ◽

Oz Shy

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Costs And Benefits ◽

Payment Systems

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Chinese and American Collaborations through Educational Exchange during the Era of Exclusion, 1872–1955

Pacific Historical Review ◽

10.1525/phr.2014.83.2.314 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 83 (2) ◽

pp. 314-332 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Madeline Y. Hsu

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

International Education ◽

Foreign Students ◽

The United States ◽

Educational Systems ◽

Higher Education Administrators ◽

Overlapping Communities ◽

American Missionaries ◽

Education Administrators

Overlapping communities of American missionaries and higher education administrators and faculty laid the foundations for international education in the United States during the first half-century of that movement’s existence. Their interests and activities in China, in conjunction with Chinese efforts to develop modern educational systems in the early twentieth century, meant that Chinese students featured prominently among foreign students in the United States. Through the education and career of Meng Zhi, an American-educated convert to Christianity, staunch patriot, and long-term director of the China Institute in America, this article examines the transition of international education programs from U.S.-dominated efforts to extend influence overseas to initiatives intended to advance Chinese nationalist projects for modernization.

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