Teaching Benefit-Cost Analysis

Edited by Robert Farrow

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Abstract: Teaching Benefit-Cost Analysis provides detail and inspiration that extends and clarifies standard textbooks. Each short, self-contained module includes guidance to additional sources while many also provide class exercises. Classes for advanced undergraduates, practitioners, or Masters students could especially apply these tools of the trade.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Teaching Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
ISBN: 9781786435316
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Decision rules , pp 3-15

William K. Bellinger

Ch 2 Triangles and all that , pp 16-39

Arnold C. Harberger

Ch 3 Defining the baseline , pp 40-57

Charles Griffiths and Chris Dockins

Ch 4 The concept of standing in benefit-cost analysis , pp 58-68

Richard O. Zerbe

Ch 5 Partial equilibrium versus general equilibrium evaluations or small versus large projects , pp 69-77

Per-Olov Johansson and Bengt Kriström

Ch 6 Benefit-cost analysis and US regulatory review: Finding a market failure , pp 78-85

Susan E. Dudley

Ch 7 The essentials: A short course for young professionals , pp 86-102

Gelsomina Catalano and Massimo Florio

Ch 8 Valuing statistical lives , pp 105-113

Lisa Robinson

Ch 9 The arithmetic of efficiency—Or the value of marginal analysis , pp 114-123

John Mendeloff

Ch 10 Treatment of employing and disemploying workers , pp 124-132

David Greenberg

Ch 11 Uncertainty and risk , pp 133-139

Nicolas Treich

Ch 12 On defining and valuing the benefits of health policy interventions: How and why CEA in health morphed into CU(B)A and “back-door†BCA , pp 140-157

David Salkever

Ch 13 Harmful addiction , pp 158-167

David Weimer

Ch 14 Supplementing benefit-cost analysis: Models for transportation and land use decisions , pp 168-179

Emile Quinet

Ch 15 Evaluating knowledge projects and R&D infrastructures with an example , pp 180-199

Massimo Florio and Chiara Pancotti

Ch 16 Cost estimation in education: The ingredients method , pp 200-207

Clive Belfield, A. Brooks Bowden and Henry Levin

Ch 17 Distributional accounting in benefit-cost analysis , pp 208-222

Kerry Krutilla

Ch 18 Case studies in the classroom: Lessons learned , pp 223-231

Stuart Shapiro

Ch 19 Simulation: Incorporating uncertainty , pp 232-238

Robert Farrow

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