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Cost-Benefit Analysis of the RFA

Science, 2006
The U.S. National Institutes of Health issues requests for applications (RFA) to solicit proposals on a specific topic. While a well-designed RFA can have significant benefit to the scientific enterprise and support the mission of the Institute, a poorly designed RFA can produce a significant ...
Norman J, Dovichi, Steven A, Soper
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Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Environment

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004
In the United States, cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is in the ascendancy. For over twenty years, American presidents have required agencies to perform CBA for major regulations; indeed, they have told agencies to regulate only if the benefits of regulation justify its costs.
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A Benefit-Cost Analysis of Benefit-Cost Analysis

2023
Benefit/Cost Analysis (BCA) has a long history of being used as the primary tool aiding public decision-making. Two primary questions motivate this dissertation: 1. Do the results output by BCA add value and impact decision-making? and 2. Is BCA trustworthy enough that decision-makers should use it?
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On Justifying Cost‐Benefit Analysis

The Journal of Legal Studies, 2000
Abstract This essay considers two problems in the justification of cost‐benefit analysis. First, it argues that because cost‐benefit analysis values policies, variation in imputed “values of life” are not, in theory, cause for concern. Second, it argues that the current framework of justification, which focuses on the moral justification of the formal ...
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Benefit-Cost Analysis: Do The Benefits Exceed The Costs?

1996
Abstract Many economists see benefit-cost analysis as a rational, analytic tool that is neutral in its values. They assert that benefit-cost analysis is essential for complicated social issues. Our eloquence about the value of this framework has enabled us to convince Congress to write benefit­ cost analysis into various laws and ...
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Educational Cost-benefit Analysis

Education Economics, 1994
This publication is one of a series of Education Papers issued from time to time by the Education Division of the Department for International Development. Each paper represents a study or commissioned research on some aspect of education and training in developing countries.
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Cost‐Benefit Analysis and Population

The Journal of Legal Studies, 2000
Abstract A cost‐benefit analysis of an event must take account of the event's effect on population. Cost‐benefit analysts traditionally ignore these effects because they think that changes in the population are ethically neutral: neither benefits or costs. Although this view is intuitively plausible, it is false for theoretical reasons.
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Principles of Cost-Benefit Analysis [PDF]

Public Policy Review, 2006
This paper summarizes the procedure for the economic evaluation of government projects and policy reforms. It begins with the social welfare function underpinnings of cost-benefit analysis including the role of distributive weights and the choice of numeraire.
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Preoperative Immunonutrition: Cost‐Benefit Analysis

Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, 2005
Background: To evaluate whether preoperative immunonutrition might lead to a savings in patient care. Data on resources consumed to treat postoperative complications are scanty, but morbidity costs continue to be a major burden for any health care system.
Braga, M, GIANOTTI, LUCA VITTORIO
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Accounting for the Distribution of Benefits and Costs in Benefit–Cost Analysis

Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2020
AbstractBenefit–cost analysis (BCA) is often viewed as measuring the efficiency of a policy independent of the distribution of its consequences. The role of distributional effects on policy choice is disputed; either: (a) the policy that maximizes net benefits should be selected and distributional concerns should be addressed through other measures ...
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