Handbook of Research on Cost–Benefit Analysis

Edited by Robert Brent

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Abstract: This Handbook provides an authoritative overview of current research in the field of cost–benefit analysis and is designed as a starting point for those interested in undertaking advanced research. The Handbook contains major contributions to the development of the field, focussing on standard microeconomic policy evaluations, the relatively neglected area of macroeconomic policy and its integration into a formal CBA framework, and dynamic considerations in CBA

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Environment; Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D6 I3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
ISBN: 9781847200693
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Overview of the Field and the Contributions in the Handbook

Robert Brent

Ch 2 Cost–Benefit Analysis for Health

Peter Zweifel and Harry Telser

Ch 3 Cost–Benefit Analysis of Drug Abuse Treatment

William S. Cartwright

Ch 4 Can Cost–Benefit Analysis Guide Education Policy in Developing Countries?

Emmanuel Jimenez and Harry Patrinos

Ch 5 Cost–Benefit Analysis in Transport: Recent Developments in Rail Project Appraisal in Britain

Chris Nash and James Laird

Ch 6 Cost–Benefit Analysis of Environmental Projects and the Role of Distributional Weights

Robert Brent and Booi Themeli

Ch 7 Cost–Benefit Analysis Applied to Labour Market Programmes

Michele Campolieti and Morley Gunderson

Ch 8 Regulation and Cost–Benefit Analysis

Franco Papandrea

Ch 9 Can Cost–Benefit Analysis of Financial Regulation be Made Credible?

Patrick Honohan

Ch 10 The Welfare Effects of Inflation: A Cost–Benefit Perspective

Karl-Heinz Tödter and Bernhard Manzke

Ch 11 Cost–Benefit Analysis of Economic Globalization

Clement Tisdell

Ch 12 Poverty Alleviation Programs and their Impacts: A Survey

Jyotsna Jalan

Ch 13 Too Hungry to Read: Is an Education Subsidy a Misguided Policy for Development?

Parantap Basu

Ch 14 Project Finance and Cost–Benefit Analysis

Peggy B. Musgrave

Ch 15 Cost–Benefit Analysis and the Evaluation of the Effects of Corruption on Public Projects

Robert Brent

Ch 16 Social Security and Future Generations

Hans Fehr and Øystein Thøgersen

Ch 17 Irreversible Investments: A Cost–Benefit Perspective

Rati Ram and Rajeev Goel

Ch 18 Pro-Growth, Pro-Poor: Is There a Trade-off?

Humberto Lopez

Ch 19 The Value of the 1964 Surgeon General’s Report

Frank Chaloupka and Richard M. Peck

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