Handbook of Research on Cost–Benefit Analysis

Robert J. Brent, Professor of Economics, Fordham University, New York, US

Contents:

Preface

PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Overview of the Field and the Contributions in the Handbook
Robert J. Brent

PART II: MICROECONOMIC EVALUATIONS
2. Cost–Benefit Analysis for Health
Peter Zweifel and Harry Telser

3. Cost–Benefit Analysis of Drug Abuse Treatment
William S. Cartwright

4. Can Cost–Benefit Analysis Guide Education Policy in Developing Countries?
Emmanuel Jimenez and Harry Anthony Patrinos

5. Cost–Benefit Analysis in Transport: Recent Developments in Rail Project Appraisal in Britain
Chris Nash and James Laird

6. Cost–Benefit Analysis of Environmental Projects and the Role of Distributional Weights
Robert J. Brent and Booi Themeli

7. Cost–Benefit Analysis Applied to Labour Market Programmes
Michele Campolieti and Morley Gunderson

8. Regulation and Cost–Benefit Analysis
Franco Papandrea

9. Can Cost–Benefit Analysis of Financial Regulation be Made Credible?
Patrick Honohan

PART III: MACROECONOMIC EVALUATIONS
10. The Welfare Effects of Inflation: A Cost–Benefit Perspective
Karl-Heinz Tödter and Bernhard Manzke

11. Cost–Benefit Analysis of Economic Globalization
Clem Tisdell

12. Poverty Alleviation Programs and their Impacts: A Survey
Jyotsna Jalan

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

14. Project Finance and Cost–Benefit Analysis
Peggy B. Musgrave

15. Cost–Benefit Analysis and the Evaluation of the Effects of Corruption on Public Projects
Robert J. Brent

PART IV: DYNAMIC EVALUATIONS
16. Social Security and Future Generations
Hans Fehr and Øystein Thøgersen

17. Irreversible Investments: A Cost–Benefit Perspective
Rati Ram and Rajeev K. Goel

18. Pro-Growth, Pro-Poor: Is There a Trade-off?
J. Humberto Lopez

19. The Value of the 1964 Surgeon General’s Report
Frank Chaloupka and Richard M. Peck

Index