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Cost-Benefit Analysis Without the B: How Rewriting OIRA’s Past Threatens Its Future

Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2020
Jim Tozzi has a wealth of knowledge and experience with cost-benefit analysis and centralized review of Executive Branch rulemaking. Mine is more limited, but nonetheless significant.1 And while I may agree with much of what he says in his article ...
Sally Katzen
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A stern reply to the reply to the review of the stern review

, 1985
Tol and Yohe point out that, in their reply [Vol. 8, No. 1] to Tol and Yohe’s review [Vol. 7, No. 4], the Stern team demonstrates the fragility of the numerical findings of the cost–benefit analysis in the Stern Review.
R. Tol, G. Yohe
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Assessing nonprofit performance

, 2010
The activities of nonprofit organizations are increasingly subject to performance evaluation. This chapter discusses the possibilities and limitations of using social benefit cost analysis as a framework for measuring nonprofit performance.
J. Cordes, K. Coventry
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Poverty Alleviation Programs and their Impacts: A Survey

, 2009
This Handbook provides an authoritative overview of current research in the field of cost–benefit analysis and is designed as a starting point for those interested in undertaking advanced research.
Jyotsna Jalan
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Discounting: reflections on the scientific and ethical dimensions of the debate

, 2003
Discounting is still a highly contested element of cost–benefit analysis. From an epistemological point of view, three levels of arguments must be distinguished: the empirical, the conceptual and the ethical level.
H. Unnerstall
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Cost-Benefit Analysis Theory versus Practice at the World Bank 1960 to 2015

Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2019
Two cost-benefit analysis methods developed from differing economic situations and analytical objectives in the 1960s and 1970s. The Trade Policy Approach of Ian Little and James Mirrlees analyzed international competitiveness of projects producing ...
W. Ward
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Efficiency vs. Welfare in Benefit–Cost Analysis: The Case of Government Funding

Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
Both Republican and Democratic administrations make regulatory and funding decisions with close reference to benefit–cost analysis (BCA). With respect to regulation, there has been a great deal of academic discussion of BCA and its limits, but almost no ...
Zachary Liscow, C. Sunstein
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Monetizing Animal Welfare Impacts for Benefit–Cost Analysis

Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
Animal welfare is often ignored in decision-making, despite widespread agreement about its importance. This is partly because of a lack of quantitative methods to assess the impacts of policies on humans and nonhumans alike on a common scale.
Mark B. Budolfson, Romain Espinosa, Bob Fischer, Nicolas Treich   +3 more
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From Benefit–Cost Analysis to Social Welfare: A Pragmatic Approach

Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
Conventional benefit–cost analysis is well-established and widely used to assess interventions designed to improve public health and welfare. While it has many advantages, it has well-known limitations.
Maddalena Ferranna, James K. Hammitt, Lisa A. Robinson   +2 more
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Introduction to Cost–Benefit Analysis

, 2010
Ginés de Rus
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