Valuing a Reduction in the Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease: A Large-Scale Multi-Country Stated Preference Approach [0.03%]
降低慢性肾脏疾病风险的价值评估：多国大规模定性偏好方法
Chris Dockins,Damien Dussaux,Charles Griffiths et al.
Chris Dockins et al.
Compromised kidney function is associated with an array of environmental contaminants and pathogens that may be considered for regulation. However, there are few valuation estimates for kidney effects for use in benefit-cost analyses, parti...
Lisa A Robinson,Michael R Eber,James K Hammitt
Lisa A Robinson
Many economic analyses, including those that address the COVID-19 pandemic, focus on the value of averting deaths and do not include the value of averting nonfatal illnesses. Yet incorporating the value of averting nonfatal cases may change...
Early Education and Adult Health: Age 37 Impacts and Economic Benefits of the Child-Parent Center Preschool Program [0.03%]
早期教育与成人健康：儿童亲子中心幼儿园项目的长期影响及其经济效益
Nishank Varshney,Judy A Temple,Arthur J Reynolds
Nishank Varshney
This paper evaluates the long-term impacts of the Chicago Child-Parent Center (CPC) program, a comprehensive early childhood program launched in the 1960s, on the physical and mental health outcomes. This study follows a cohort of 1539 part...
Methodological Challenges in Estimating the Lifetime Medical Care Cost Externality of Obesity [0.03%]
肥胖寿命医疗护理成本外部性估算方法面临的挑战
Robert C Schell,David R Just,David A Levitsky
Robert C Schell
There is a great deal of variability in estimates of the lifetime medical care cost externality of obesity, partly due to a lack of transparency in the methodology behind these cost models. Several important factors must be considered in pr...
Christian Gollier
Christian Gollier
I calibrate an eco-epidemiological age-structured Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model of the B.1.1.7 covid variant on the eve of the vaccination campaign in France, under a stop-and-go lockdown policy. Three-quarters of the welfare b...
Karl Claxton,Miqdad Asaria,Collins Chansa et al.
Karl Claxton et al.
The primary focus of this paper is to offer guidance on the analysis of time streams of effects that a project may have so that they can be discounted appropriately. This requires a framework that identifies the common parameters that need ...
Conducting Benefit-Cost Analysis in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Introduction to the Special Issue [0.03%]
低收入和中等收入国家的效益成本分析：特刊简介
Lisa A Robinson,James K Hammitt,Dean T Jamison et al.
Lisa A Robinson et al.
Investing in global health and development requires making difficult choices about what policies to pursue and what level of resources to devote to different initiatives. Methods of economic evaluation are well established and widely used t...
Elina Pradhan,Dean T Jamison
Elina Pradhan
Benefit-cost analyses of education policies in low- and middle-income countries have historically used the effect of education on future wages to estimate benefits. Strong evidence also points to female education reducing both the under-fiv...
Dale Whittington,Joseph Cook
Dale Whittington
Valuing changes in time use is often a critical element of economic analyses of development projects. In this paper we review the literature on the monetary value of time in low- and middle-income countries and find support for a commonly u...
Applying Benefit-Cost Analysis to Air Pollution Control in the Indian Power Sector [0.03%]
效益成本分析在印度电力行业大气污染控制中的应用
Maureen L Cropper,Sarath Guttikunda,Puja Jawahar et al.
Maureen L Cropper et al.
Air pollution is a persistent and well-established public health problem in India: emissions from coal-fired power plants have been associated with over 80,000 premature deaths in 2015. Premature deaths could rise by four to five times this...