Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis

2010 - 2024

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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 K. 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

Volume 12, issue 3, 2021

The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It pp. 395-419

Bent Flyvbjerg and Dirk W. Bester

Economic Activity and the Value of Medical Innovation during a Pandemic pp. 420-440

Casey B. Mulligan

Methodological Challenges in Estimating the Lifetime Medical Care Cost Externality of Obesity pp. 441-465

Robert C. Schell, David Just and David A. Levitsky

Institutional Roles and Goals for Retrospective Regulatory Analysis pp. 466-493

Lori S. Bennear and Jonathan B. Wiener

Benefit-Cost Analysis for Climate Action pp. 494-517

Dominique Bureau, Alain Quinet and Katheline Schubert

The Benefits and Costs of Automotive Regulations for Low-Income Americans pp. 518-549

Kylie Conrad and John D. Graham

Volume 12, issue 2, 2021

The Welfare Cost of Vaccine Misallocation, Delays and Nationalism pp. 199-226

Christian Gollier

Poverty, Irrationality, and the Value of Cash Transfers pp. 227-257

Daniel Acland

The Influence of Individual Characteristics and Institutional Norms on Bureaucrats’ Use of Cost–Benefit Analysis: A Choice Experiment pp. 258-286

Johanna Jussila Hammes, Lena Nerhagen and Heather C. Fors

Quantifying the Non-Use Value of Biodiversity in Cost–Benefit Analysis: The Dutch Biodiversity Points pp. 287-312

Frits Bos and Arjan Ruijs

Accounting for the Effects of Employment, Equity, and Risk Aversion in Cost–Benefit Analysis: An Application to an Adaptation Project pp. 313-334

Ambika Markanday, Anil Markandya, Elisa Sainz de Murieta and Ibon Galarraga

Risk-Informed Benefit–Cost Analysis for Homeland Security R&D: Methodology and an Application to Evaluating the Advanced Personal Protection System for Wildland Firefighters pp. 335-366

Stephanie Michelle Thrift and Detlof von Winterfeldt

Benefit–Cost Analysis of Social Media Facilitated Bystander Programs pp. 367-393

Axel Ebers and Stephan Thomsen

Open Access in Scientific Information: Sustainability Model and Business Plan for the Infrastructure and Organization of OpenAIRE –Corrigendum pp. 394-394

Phoebe Koundouri, Nikos Chatzistamoulou, Osiel González Dávila, Amerissa Giannouli, Nikolaos Kourogenis, Anastasios Xepapadeas and Petros Xepapadeas

Volume 12, issue 1, 2021

Extending the Domain of the Value of a Statistical Life pp. 1-23

W Viscusi

Incidence and Costs of Personal and Property Crimes in the USA, 2017 pp. 24-54

Ted R. Miller, Mark Cohen, David I. Swedler, Bina Ali and Delia V. Hendrie

Accounting for the Distribution of Benefits and Costs in Benefit–Cost Analysis pp. 64-84

James K. Hammitt

Economic Evaluation of Investments in Airports: Recent Developments pp. 85-121

Peter Forsyth, Hans-Martin Niemeier and Eric Tchouamou Njoya

Addressing Fundamental Uncertainty in Benefit–Cost Analysis: The Case of Deep Seabed Mining pp. 122-151

Kerry Krutilla, David Good, Michael Toman and Tijen Arin

Cost–Benefit Assessment of Public Investments in France: The Use of Counter-Experts pp. 152-169

Luc Baumstark, Roger Guesnerie, Jincheng Ni and Jean-Paul Ourliac

Open Access in Scientific Information: Sustainability Model and Business Plan for the Infrastructure and Organization of OpenAIRE pp. 170-198

Phoebe Koundouri, Nikos Chatzistamoulou, Osiel González Dávila, Amerissa Giannouli, Nikolaos Kourogenis, Anastasios Xepapadeas and Petros Xepapadeas

Volume 11, issue 3, 2020

Forming COVID-19 Policy Under Uncertainty pp. 341-356

Charles Manski

Publication Selection Biases in Stated Preference Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life pp. 357-379

Clayton J. Masterman and W Viscusi

Benefit–Cost Analysis of Community-Led Total Sanitation: Incorporating Results from Recent Evaluations pp. 380-417

Mark Radin, Marc Jeuland, Hua Wang and Dale Whittington

Value of Improved Information about Environmental Protection Values: Toward a Benefit–Cost Analysis of Public-Good Valuation Studies pp. 418-440

Jon Strand and Sauleh Siddiqui

Is Existence Value Appropriate for Regulatory Benefit–Cost Analysis? pp. 441-456

Seth Binder

Efficiency without Apology: Consideration of the Marginal Excess Tax Burden and Distributional Impacts in Benefit–Cost Analysis pp. 457-478

Anthony Boardman, David Greenberg, Aidan Vining and David Weimer

Retrospective Benefit–Cost Analysis of Security-Enhancing and Cost-Saving Technologies pp. 479-500

Robert Farrow and Detlof von Winterfeldt

Averting Expenditures and Willingness to Pay for Electricity Supply Reliability pp. 501-523

Naghmeh Niroomand and Glenn Jenkins

Volume 11, issue 2, 2020

Ten Guidelines for Better Tables pp. 151-178

Jonathan Schwabish

The Benefits and Costs of Using Social Distancing to Flatten the Curve for COVID-19 pp. 179-195

Linda Thunström, Stephen Newbold, David Finnoff, Madison Ashworth and Jason Shogren

Behavioral Welfare Economics pp. 196-220

Cass R. Sunstein

The Perception and Excessive Valuation of Small, Publicized Drinking Water Risks pp. 221-243

W Viscusi, Joel Huber and Jason Bell

Social Discounting and the Cost of Public Funds: A Practitioner’s Perspective pp. 244-271

Michael Spackman

A Partial Review of Seven Official Guidelines for Cost-Benefit Analysis pp. 272-293

Peter Abelson

Achieving Economically Feasible Drinking Water Regulation pp. 294-318

Richard B. Belzer

The Consent Justification for Benefit–Cost Analysis pp. 319-340

Richard O. Zerbe

Volume 11, issue 1, 2020

Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs: Past, Present, and Future pp. 2-37

Jim Tozzi

Jim Tozzi’s Latest on Centralized Regulatory Review pp. 38-40

James C. Miller

Commentary on Jim Tozzi, “Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs: Past, Present, and Future” pp. 41-48

Christopher DeMuth

Cost-Benefit Analysis Without the B: How Rewriting OIRA’s Past Threatens Its Future pp. 49-54

Sally Katzen

A Future for Federal Regulatory Budgeting? pp. 55-61

John D. Graham

Regulatory Oversight and Benefit-Cost Analysis: A Historical Perspective pp. 62-70

Susan E. Dudley

What Makes OIRA Work: A Commentary on Jim Tozzi’s “Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs: Past, Present, and Future” pp. 71-75

Howard Shelanski

A Retrospective Benefit-Cost Analysis on the Elwha River Restoration Project pp. 76-100

Allen Bellas and Lea-Rachel Kosnik

Evaluating the Economic Viability of Public Investments in Tourism pp. 101-130

Onil Banerjee, Martín Cicowiez and Adela Moreda

Monetizing Bowser: A Contingent Valuation of the Statistical Value of Dog Life pp. 131-149

Deven Carlson, Simon Haeder, Hank Jenkins-Smith, Joseph Ripberger, Carol Silva and David Weimer

Monetizing Bowser: A Contingent Valuation of the Statistical Value of Dog Life – Corrigendum pp. 150-150

Deven Carlson, Simon Haeder, Hank Jenkins-Smith, Joseph Ripberger, Carol Silva and David Weimer