Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis

2010 - 2025

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Volume 14, issue S1, 2023

Save 4.2 Million Lives and Generate $1.1 Trillion in Economic Benefits for Only $41 Billion: Introduction to the Special Issue on the Most Efficient Policies for the Sustainable Development Goals pp. 1-15

Bjorn Lomborg

An Investment Case for the Scale-up and Use of Insecticide-Treated Nets Halfway into the SDG Targets pp. 16-54

Rima Shretta and Randolph Ngwafor Anye

Improving Learning in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries pp. 55-80

Noam Angrist, Elisabetta Aurino, Harry Patrinos, George Psacharopoulos, Emiliana Vegas, Ralph Nordjo and Brad Wong

The Investment Case for E-Government Procurement: A Cost–Benefit Analysis pp. 81-107

Erica Bosio, Gavin Hayman and Nancy Dubosse

Benefit–Cost Analysis of Increased Trade: An Order-of-Magnitude Estimate of the Benefit–Cost Ratio pp. 108-135

James Feyrer, Vladimir Tyazhelnikov, Benjamin Aleman-Castilla and Brad Wong

Sustainable Development Goal Halftime Project: Benefit-Cost Analysis Using Methods from the Decade of Vaccine Economics Model pp. 136-180

Bryan Patenaude, Salin Sriudomporn and Joshua Mak

Benefit–Cost Analysis of Increased Funding for Agricultural Research and Development in the Global South pp. 181-205

Mark W. Rosegrant, Brad Wong, Timothy Sulser, Nancy Dubosse and Travis J. Lybbert

Achieving Maternal and Neonatal Mortality Development Goals Effectively: A Cost-Benefit Analysis pp. 206-234

Nyovani Madise, Arindam Nandi, Brad Wong and Saleema Razvi

Investing in Nutrition: A Global Best Investment Case pp. 235-254

Bjorn Larsen, John Hoddinott and Saleema Razvi

Best Investments in Chronic, Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control in Low- and Lower–Middle-Income Countries pp. 255-271

David Watkins, Sali Ahmed and Sarah Pickersgill

The Investment Case for Land Tenure Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cost–Benefit Analysis pp. 272-300

Frank F.K. Byamugisha and Nancy Dubosse

A Benefit-Cost Analysis of Increased International Migration of Skilled Labor in Africa and the World pp. 301-336

Keith Maskus

One Million Lives Saved Per Year: A Cost–Benefit Analysis of the Global Plan to End Tuberculosis, 2023–2030 and Beyond pp. 337-354

Carel Pretorius, Nimalan Arinaminpathy, Sandip Mandal, Suvanand Sahu, Madhukar Pai, Roland Mathiasson and Brad Wong

Sustainable Development Goal Halftime Project: Benefit-Cost Analysis Using Methods from the Decade of Vaccine Economics Model – CORRIGENDUM pp. 355-355

Bryan Patenaude, Salin Sriudomporn and Joshua Mak

Best Investments in Chronic, Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control in Low- and Lower–Middle-Income Countries – CORRIGENDUM pp. 356-356

David Watkins, Sali Ahmed and Sarah Pickersgill

Volume 14, issue 3, 2023

Redistributive Regulations and Deadweight Loss pp. 407-436

Daniel J. Hemel

Differences by Race and Ethnicity in Title IX’s Effect on Women’s Health pp. 437-450

Delaney Beck, Joni Hersch and W Viscusi

Cost–Benefit Analysis of an “Average” Professional Sports Team or Stadium in the United States pp. 451-477

Cristian Sepulveda

Volume 14, issue 2, 2023

Seven Recommendations for Pricing Greenhouse Gas Emissions pp. 191-204

Arthur G. Fraas, John D. Graham, Kerry M. Krutilla, Randall Lutter, Jason F. Shogren, Linda Thunström and W Viscusi

Distribution and Disputation: Net Benefits, Equity, and Public Decision-Making pp. 205-229

Spencer Banzhaf

An Assessment of the Climate Damage Costs of European Short-Lived Climate Forcers pp. 230-250

Stefan Åström and Lovisa Källmark

The Welfare Cost of Beijing’s Lottery Policy: Evidence from a Contingent Valuation Survey pp. 251-274

Ping Qin, Yifei Quan, Antung A. Liu, Joshua Linn and Jun Yang

Ex Ante Costs Versus Ex Post Costs of the Large Municipal Waste Combustor Rule pp. 275-297

Cynthia Morgan and Carl Pasurka

A Test of Hirschman’s Hiding Hand Principle in World Bank-Financed Hydropower Projects pp. 298-317

Godwin Olasehinde-Williams and Glenn Jenkins

Assessing Risk, Effectiveness, and Benefits in Transportation Regulation pp. 318-335

Deborah Vaughn Aiken and Stephen Brumbaugh

A Benefit–Cost Analysis of Tulsa Pre-K, Based on Effects on High-School Graduation and College Attendance pp. 336-355

Timothy Bartik, William T. Gormley, Sara Amadon, Douglas Hummel-Price and James Fuller

When Patients are Assailants: Valuing Occupational Risks in Health Care pp. 356-385

Elissa P. Gentry and W Viscusi

The Elasticity of Marginal Utility of Income for Distributional Weighting and Social Discounting: A Meta-Analysis pp. 386-405

Daniel Acland and David Greenberg

Volume 14, issue 1, 2023

Inequality and the Value of a Statistical Life pp. 1-7

Cass R. Sunstein

Promoting Equity through Equitable Risk Tradeoffs pp. 8-34

Thomas Kniesner and W Viscusi

An Equity Blindspot: The Incidence of Regulatory Costs pp. 35-43

Caroline Cecot

The Generalized Risk-Adjusted Cost-Effectiveness (GRACE) Model for Measuring the Value of Gains in Health: An Exact Formulation pp. 44-67

Darius Lakdawalla and Charles E. Phelps

Distributional weighting and welfare/equity tradeoffs: a new approach pp. 68-92

Daniel J. Acland and David Greenberg

All Cancers Are not Created Equal: How Do Survival Prospects Affect the Willingness to Pay to Avoid Cancer? pp. 93-113

Anna Alberini, Christoph Rheinberger and Milan Ščasný

When Can Benefit–Cost Analyses Ignore Secondary Markets? pp. 114-140

Matthew J. Kotchen and Arik Levinson

Discounting in Natural Resource Damage Assessment pp. 141-161

Eric Horsch, Daniel Phaneuf, Chris Giguere, Jason Murray, Cameron Duff and Cole Kroninger

Discounting in Natural Resource Damage Assessment – Erratum pp. 162-162

Eric Horsch, Daniel Phaneuf, Chris Giguere, Jason Murray, Cameron Duff and Cole Kroninger

The Net Benefits and Residual Cost from U.S. Border Management of the Initially Inadmissible pp. 163-189

Robert Farrow

Volume 13, issue 3, 2022

“We Test”: An Imagined Regulatory Future pp. 269-280

Cass R. Sunstein

Three Criteria for Evaluating Social Programs pp. 281-286

Jorge Luis Garcia and James Joseph Heckman

Three Misconceptions about Federal Regulation pp. 287-309

Patrick A. McLaughlin and Casey B. Mulligan

How is the U.S. Pricing Carbon? How Could We Price Carbon? pp. 310-334

Joseph E. Aldy, Dallas Burtraw, Carolyn Fischer, Meredith Fowlie, Roberton Williams and Maureen Cropper

The Benefits and Costs of a Child Allowance pp. 335-362

Irwin Garfinkel, Laurel Sariscsany, Elizabeth Ananat, Sophie Collyer, Robert P. Hartley, Buyi Wang and Christopher Wimer

Risk Perception, Learning, and Willingness to Pay to Reduce Heart Disease Risk pp. 363-382

Mark Dickie, Wiktor Adamowicz, Shelby Gerking and Marcella Veronesi

Paying a Premium for “Green Steel”: Paying for an Illusion? pp. 383-393

Per-Olov Johansson and Bengt Kriström

Volume 13, issue 2, 2022

The Broad Impacts of Disposable Lighter Safety Regulations pp. 149-165

W Viscusi and Rachel Dalafave

Costs and Benefits of Branded Drugs: Insights from Cost-Effectiveness Research pp. 166-181

Harry Frech, Mark V. Pauly, William S. Comanor and Joseph R. Martinez

The Value of Statistical Life: A Meta-Analysis of Meta-Analyses pp. 182-197

Spencer Banzhaf

Dynamic Versus Static Modeling of Mortality-Related Benefits of PM2.5 Reductions in the USA and Chile: 1990 to 2050 pp. 198-223

Henry Roman, James E. Neumann, Stefani Penn, Alisa White and Neal Fann

The Weak Spot of Infrastructure BCA: Cost Overruns in Seven Road and Railway Construction Projects pp. 224-246

Jan-Eric Nilsson

Valuing COVID-19 Morbidity Risk Reductions pp. 247-268

Lisa Robinson, Michael R. Eber and James Hammitt

Volume 13, issue 1, 2022

Is California’s Electric Vehicle Rebate Regressive? A Distributional Analysis pp. 1-19

Arthur L. Ku and John D. Graham

Categorizing and Ranking Graphs in Economics Research: The American Economic Review over the Last Century pp. 20-33

Jonathan Schwabish

Prospective Evaluation of Health Communication Effects on Market Outcomes pp. 34-56

Rosemarie L. Summers, Dallas W. Wood, Nellie Lew, Shawn A. Karns, Mary K. Muth, Clark Nardinelli, Janet G. Peckham and Carolyn Wolff

Early Education and Adult Health: Age 37 Impacts and Economic Benefits of the Child-Parent Center Preschool Program pp. 57-90

Nishank Varshney, Judy Temple and Arthur J. Reynolds

Benefit-Cost Ratios of Continuing Routine Immunization During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa pp. 91-106

Elizabeth Watts, Joshua Mak and Bryan Patenaude

Demand for an Environmental Public Good in the Time of COVID-19: A Statewide Water Quality Referendum pp. 107-119

George Parsons, Laura A. Paul and Kent Messer

Time Savings vs. Access-Based Benefit Assessment of New York’s Second Avenue Subway pp. 120-147

Yadi Wang and David Levinson