Chapter 7: Social and Emotional Learning: The Cost of Inaction

Anantha K. Duraiappah and Sanchit Sethi. The macroeconomic costs of potential losses in economic productivity from not including SEL in education systems across our sample countries is, on an average, 29% of Gross National Income (GNI). This amount can be expected to be much higher if we consider Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY) while estimating GNI.