Principles and Standards for Benefit–Cost Analysis

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Contents: Introduction Professionalizing Benefit - Cost Analysis R. Scott Farrow and Richard O. Zerbe, Jr. Principles for Benefit - Cost Analysis 1. An Assessment of Important Issues Concerning the Application of Benefit - Cost Analysis to Social Policy Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer 2. Toward Standardization of Benefit - Cost Analysis of Early Childhood Interventions Lynn A. Karoly 3. Principles and Standards for Benefit - Cost Analysis of Public Health Preparedness and Pandemic Mitigation Programs Joseph H. Cook 4. Principles and Standards for the Benefit - Cost Analysis of Crime John R. Lott, Jr. 5. Towards Principles and Standards for the Benefit - Cost Analysis of Safety Scott Farrow and W. Kip Viscusi 6. Developing General Equilibrium Benefit Analyses for Social Programs: An Introduction and Example H. Allen Klaiber and V. Kerry Smith 7. Appropriate Discounting for Benefit - Cost Analysis David F. Burgess and Richard O. Zerbe, Jr. 8. Ethical Benefit Cost Analysis as Art and Science - Ten Rules for Benefit - Cost Analysis Richard O. Zerbe, Jr. 9. Incorporating Distributional Issues into Benefit Cost Analysis: Why, How, and Two Empirical Examples Using Non-market Valuation John B. Loomis 10. Behavioral Economics and the Conduct of Benefit - Cost Analysis: Towards Principles and Standards Lisa A. Robinson and James K. Hammitt Conclusion 11. Principles and Standards for Benefit - Cost Analysis Richard O. Zerbe, Jr., Tayler Blake Davis, Nancy Garland and Tyler Scott