Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Education and Health Interventions in Developing Countries

Patrick McEwan

No 1102, SPD Working Papers from Inter-American Development Bank, Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness (SPD)

Abstract: High-quality impact evaluations, including randomized experiments, are increasingly popular, but cannot always inform resource allocation decisions unless the costs of interventions are considered alongside their effects. Cost-effectiveness analysis is a straightforward but under-utilized tool for determining which, of two or more interventions provides a (non-pecuniary) unit of effect at least cost. This paper reviews the framework and methods of cost-effectiveness analysis,emphasizing education and health interventions, and discusses how the methods are applied in the literature.

Keywords: Cost-Effectiveness; Cost-Benefit; Impact Evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H43 I25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu and nep-hea
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.iadb.org/document.cfm?id=36564067 (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 403 Forbidden (http://www.iadb.org/document.cfm?id=36564067 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.iadb.org/document.cfm?id=36564067 [302 Found]--> https://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=36564067 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://wa-p-ezshare-ecmgetdocumentpage.azurewebsites.net:443/getdocument.aspx?docnum=36564067 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://wa-p-ezshare-ecmgetdocumentpage.azurewebsites.net:443/getdocument?docnum=36564067 [302 Found]--> https://iadb-ezshare-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/IDBDocsPublic/EZSHARE-220527872-2225?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIA2UJKEGX4WA3MQ7BN&Expires=1743163577&response-cache-control=No-cache&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3DCost-Effectiveness%20Analysis%20of%20Education%20and%20Health%20Interventions%20in%20Developing%20Countries%20%5B36564067%5D.PDF&response-content-type=application%2Fpdf&Signature=9lDEh3K2yCJSI2JuB796Ml%2FF%2FZs%3D)

Related works:
Journal Article: Cost-effectiveness analysis of education and health interventions in developing countries (2012)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:idb:spdwps:1102

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in SPD Working Papers from Inter-American Development Bank, Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness (SPD) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Felipe Herrera Library (bid-library@iadb.org).