Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis

2010 - 2025

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Volume 6, issue 3, 2015

Benefit-Cost Analysis of Prevention and Intervention Programs for Youth and Young Adults: Introduction to the Special Issue pp. 455-470

Margaret R. Kuklinski

Considering Valuation of Noncognitive Skills in Benefit-Cost Analysis of Programs for Children 1 pp. 471-507

Damon E. Jones, Lynn A. Karoly, D. Max Crowley and Mark T. Greenberg

The Economic Value of Social and Emotional Learning pp. 508-544

Clive Belfield, A. Brooks Bowden, Alli Klapp, Henry Levin, Robert Shand and Sabine Zander

Cost Analysis of a School-Based Social and Emotional Learning and Literacy Intervention 1 pp. 545-571

Katherine Long, Joshua L. Brown, Stephanie M. Jones, J. Lawrence Aber and Brian T. Yates

Evaluating the Talent Search TRIO program: A Benefit-Cost Analysis and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis 1 pp. 572-602

A. Brooks Bowden and Clive Belfield

Benefits and Costs of a Targeted Intervention Program for Youthful Offenders: The YouthBuild USA Offender Project pp. 603-627

Mark Cohen and Alex R. Piquero

Using Benefit-Cost Analysis to Scale Up Early Childhood Programs through Pay-for-Success Financing pp. 628-653

Judy Temple and Arthur J. Reynolds

Volume 6, issue 2, 2015

Pricing Lives for Corporate and Governmental Risk Decisions 1 pp. 227-246

W Viscusi

Valuing Regulations Affecting Addictive or Habitual Goods pp. 247-280

David M. Cutler, Amber Jessup, Donald Kenkel and Martha Starr

Adding Value with Benefit-Cost Analysis: Forecasting Net Social Benefit from Impacts of Slot Machine Gambling in Maryland pp. 281-304

Robert Farrow

Willingness to Pay to Reduce White-Collar and Corporate Crime pp. 305-324

Mark Cohen

Estimating the Job Impacts of Environmental Regulation pp. 325-340

Anna Belova, Wayne Gray, Joshua Linn, Richard D. Morgenstern and William Pizer

Challenges in Including BCA in Planning Approval Processes: Coal Mine Projects in New South Wales, Australia pp. 341-368

Robert Gillespie and Jeffrey Bennett

Benefit-Cost Analysis in the States: Status, Impact, and Challenges pp. 369-399

Darcy White and Gary VanLandingham

The Council on Wage and Price Stability: A Retrospective pp. 400-431

Thomas Hopkins and Laura Stanley

The Energy Efficiency Gap in EPA’s Benefit-Cost Analysis of Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Regulations: A Case Study pp. 432-454

Gloria Helfand and Reid Dorsey-Palmateer

Volume 6, issue 1, 2015

Musings on the Social Discount Rate 1 pp. 6-32

Arnold C. Harberger and Glenn Jenkins

Grappling with Ignorance: Frameworks from Decision Theory, Lessons from Literature pp. 33-65

Devjani Roy and Richard Zeckhauser

Uncertainty in the Cost-Effectiveness of Federal Air Quality Regulations pp. 66-111

Kerry Krutilla, David H. Good and John D. Graham

Public Policy Induced Changes in Employment: Valuation Issues for Benefit-Cost Analysis pp. 112-153

Robert Haveman and David Weimer

Retrospective and Prospective Benefit-Cost Analyses of U.S. Anti-Smoking Policies 1 pp. 154-186

Lawrence Jin, Donald Kenkel, Feng Liu and Hua Wang

Reference-Dependence Effects in Benefit Assessment: Beyond the WTA–WTP Dichotomy and WTA–WTP Ratios pp. 187-206

W Viscusi

Implications of the WTP–WTA Disparity for Benefit–Cost Analysis pp. 207-216

James Hammitt

The Curiously Continuing Saga of Choosing the Measure of Welfare Changes pp. 217-225

Jack Knetsch

Volume 5, issue 3, 2014

Introduction to a special issue entitled Perspectives on Implementing Benefit-Cost Analysis in Climate Assessment pp. 333-346

Fran Sussman, Anne Grambsch, Jia Li and Christopher P. Weaver

Challenges in applying the paradigm of welfare economics to climate change pp. 347-376

Fran Sussman, Christopher P. Weaver and Anne Grambsch

Integrated assessment of climate change: state of the literature pp. 377-409

John Weyant

State of the literature on the economic impacts of climate change in the United States pp. 411-443

James E. Neumann and Kenneth Strzepek

Improving the practice of economic analysis of climate change adaptation pp. 445-467

Jia Li, Michael Mullan and Jennifer Helgeson

The need for multiple types of information to inform climate change assessment pp. 469-485

Michael Toman

Embedding (some) benefit-cost concepts into decision support processes with deep uncertainty pp. 487-514

Robert J. Lempert

Volume 5, issue 2, 2014

Retrospective cost analyses of EPA regulations: a case study approach pp. 173-193

Elizabeth Kopits, Albert McGartland, Cynthia Morgan, Carl Pasurka, Ron Shadbegian, Nathalie Simon, David Simpson and Ann Wolverton

Ex ante and ex post cost estimates of the Cluster Rule and MACT II Rule pp. 195-224

Cynthia Morgan, Carl Pasurka and Ron Shadbegian

Retrospective evaluation of costs associated with methyl bromide critical use exemptions for open field strawberries in California pp. 225-257

Ann Wolverton

National primary drinking water regulation for arsenic: A retrospective assessment of costs pp. 259-284

Cynthia Morgan and Nathalie Simon

A retrospective assessment of the costs of EPA’s 1998 Locomotive Emission Standards pp. 285-314

Elizabeth Kopits

Do regulators overestimate the costs of regulation? pp. 315-332

R. David Simpson

Volume 5, issue 1, 2014

Estimating the social value of higher education: willingness to pay for community and technical colleges pp. 3-41

Glenn Blomquist, Paul A. Coomes, Christopher Jepsen, Brandon Koford and Kenneth Troske

A benefit-cost framework for early intervention to prevent sex trading pp. 43-87

Lauren Martin and Richard Lotspeich

Behavioral economics and policy evaluation pp. 89-109

Timothy Brennan

Role of BCA in TIGER grant reviews: common errors and influence on the selection process pp. 111-135

Anthony C. Homan

Identifying the analytical implications of alternative regulatory philosophies pp. 137-171

Art Fraas and Richard Morgenstern

Volume 4, issue 3, 2013

A cost-benefit analysis of Tulsa’s IDA program pp. 263-300

David Greenberg

Congressional modification of benefit-cost analysis as a vehicle for particularized benefits and a limitation on agency discretion: the case of the federal contract tower program pp. 301-333

Russell W. Mills

Benefit-cost analysis of accelerated replacement of Hong Kong’s pre-Euro IV buses pp. 335-360

Weiwen Leung

Accounting for systematic risk in benefit-cost analysis: a practical approach pp. 361-373

Jason Hansen and Jonathan Lipow

Benefit-cost analysis: government compensation vs. consumer tax model pp. 375-389

Andrew Schmitz, Dwayne J. Haynes and Troy G. Schmitz

The most appropriate discount rate pp. 391-400

David F. Burgess and Richard O. Zerbe

The choice of the social discount rate and the opportunity cost of public funds pp. 401-409

Mark A. Moore, Anthony Boardman and Aidan Vining

Scitovsky reversals in benefit-cost analysis with normal goods pp. 411-413

Richard Just, Andrew Schmitz and Richard O. Zerbe

Volume 4, issue 2, 2013

Regional variation, holdouts, and climate treaty negotiations pp. 131-157

J Holladay and Michael A. Livermore

A cost-benefit framework for evaluating conditional cash-transfer programs pp. 159-180

Robert Brent

A cost-benefit analysis: implementing temporary disability insurance in Washington State pp. 181-208

Dan F. Jacoby

Cost-benefit analyses of sprinklers in nursing homes for elderly pp. 209-235

Henrik Jaldell

The value of a statistical life: some clarifications and puzzles pp. 237-261

Cass Sunstein

Volume 4, issue 1, 2013

More appropriate discounting: the rate of social time preference and the value of the social discount rate pp. 1-16

Mark A. Moore, Anthony Boardman and Aidan Vining

Regulatory policy: what role for retrospective analysis and review? pp. 17-38

Randall Lutter

New risk rates, inter-industry differentials and the magnitude of VSL estimates pp. 39-80

Carol R. Scotton

Water quality indices and benefit-cost analysis pp. 81-105

Patrick Walsh and William Wheeler

Skills of the trade: valuing health risk reductions in benefit-cost analysis pp. 107-130

Lisa Robinson and James Hammitt