Table 1.

Government savings from Child-Parent Center preschool participation in 2014 dollars reported as the present value at child’s age 3

	Dollars per child
Program cost (for 1.55 years of preschool)	$9,519
Savings to government	$27,455
Reductions in special education and remediation	$6,711
Reduction in child abuse/ neglect system costs	$3,456
Reduction in criminal justice system costs	$10,132
Taxes from higher earnings	$7,156
Reductions in welfare costs	--

Note. From Reynolds et al. (2011b) adjusted using CPI-U price index. Welfare costs were not estimated due to no observed differences between groups. Table 4 in Reynolds et al. (2011b) reports the total social benefits per participant to be $92,220 in 2007 dollars, which is $103,130 in 2014 dollars.