Modern Cost Benefit Methods

Author : Carla Guerriero
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128129360
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Health Interventions written by Carla Guerriero and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cost-benefit Analysis of Environmental Health Interventions clearly articulates the core principles and fundamental methodologies underpinning the modern economic assessment of environmental intervention on human health. Taking a practical approach, the book provides a step-by-step approach to assigning a monetary value to the health benefits and disbenefits arising from interventions, using environmental information and epidemiological evidence. It summarizes environmental risk factors and explores how to interpret and understand epidemiological data using concentration-response, exposure-response or dose-response techniques, explaining the environmental interventions available for each environmental risk factor. It evaluates in detail two of the most challenging stages of Cost-Benefit Analysis in ‘discounting’ and ‘accounting for uncertainty’. Further chapters describe how to analyze and critique results, evaluate potential alternatives to Cost-Benefit Analysis, and on how to engage with stakeholders to communicate the results of Cost-Benefit Analysis. The book includes a detailed case study how to conduct a Cost-Benefit Analysis. It is supported by an online website providing solution files and detailing the design of models using Excel. Provides a clear understanding of the core theory of cost-benefit analysis in environmental health interventions Provides practical guidance using real-world case studies to motivate and expand understanding Describes the challenging ‘discounting’ and ‘accounting for uncertainty’ problems at chapter length Supported by a practical case study, online solution files, and a practical guide to the design of CBA models using Excel

Author : George Irvin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Cost-benefit Methods written by George Irvin and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Per-Olov Johansson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521356954
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Modern Welfare Economics written by Per-Olov Johansson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-08-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in welfare economics to be primarily intended for undergraduates and non-specialists. Concepts such as Pareto optimality in a market economy, the compensation criterion, and the social welfare function are explored in detail. Market failures are analysed by using different ways of measuring welfare changes. The book also examines public choice, and the issues of provision of public goods, median voter equilibrium, government failures, efficient and optimal taxation, and intergenerational equity. The three final chapters are devoted to applied welfare economics: methods for revealing people's preferences, cost-benefit analysis, and project evaluation in a risky world. The book is intended for introductory and intermediate courses in welfare economics, microeconomics, and public economics. It will also be suitable for courses in health economics, environmental economics, and cost-benefit analysis, as well as those undertaking project evaluations in government agencies and private firms.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
ISBN 13 : 9290929588
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cost-Benefit Analysis for Development written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been continuously undertaking measures to enhance the effectiveness of its operations. To improve projects both at the preparation and implementation stages, ADB issued the Guidelines for Economic Analysis of Projects in 1997 as a means to enhancing project quality at entry. The conduct of proper economic analysis helps ensure the efficient use of development funds and public resources and thereby increase aid effectiveness. This practical guide is a supplement to the Guidelines for the Economic Analysis of Projects. It provides an overview of recent methodological developments in cost-benefit analysis as well as suggested improvements in the economic analysis of projects in selected sectors through case studies. These case studies illustrate the application of suggested methodologies, taking into account sector-specific needs, as well as difficulties faced by practitioners in terms of data and time constraints during project processing. It also aims to contribute to ADB’s capacity building initiatives as this will be the main reference material for conduct of economic analysis.

Author : George Irvin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern cost-benefit methods written by George Irvin and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert J. Brent
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1843766981
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cost-benefit Analysis and Health Care Evaluations written by Robert J. Brent and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Brent s book is a superb and much-needed text in the field of health care evaluation. The economic approaches for appraisal of health care programs are presented with greater clarity than any other available text. A comprehensive review of cost-minimization, cost-effectiveness analysis, cost utility analysis, and cost benefit analysis is given in a simple and yet very insightful manner that pointedly demonstrates their fundamental principles, methodological requirements, and common linkages for evaluation research. The book skilfully merges theory and application of the economic analyses of health care, combining the latest literature with adroit illustrations of required methodologies and easily understandable examples that inform the reader of how empirical evaluation research should be conducted. Major evaluation concerns about the appropriateness of discounting health benefits, the appropriate discount (interest) rate, and intangible benefits and costs are critically appraised. Not only is the criterion of economic efficiency of health care programs explored directly and with lucidity, but the important social question of the equity of health interventions is also assessed straightforwardly. Students of health care as well as health policy analysts and administrators are provided with a considerable solid foundation for undertaking evaluation of complex health care issues. In short, Professor Brent has even made the economics of health care evaluation accessible to non-economists in the health care field. Paul L. Solano, University of Delaware, US Cost benefit analysis is the only method of economic evaluation which can effectively indicate whether a health care treatment or intervention is worthwhile. This book attempts to build a bridge between cost benefit analysis, as developed by economists, and the health care evaluation literature which relies on other evaluation approaches such as cost-minimization, cost-effectiveness analysis and cost utility analysis. Robert Brent explains the many different ways in which these other valuation techniques can be converted into cost benefit analysis and examines both the traditional (human capital) and modern (willingness to pay) approaches. Case studies are used throughout to explain and illustrate the various methodologies being examined. The author follows an applied economics approach, in which methods and ideas are evaluated according to practicability and not according to their theoretical purity. Ultimately, he resolves a number of disputes and makes some new, but subtle, contributions by reinterpreting, correcting and extending existing work. The book covers the topic in an accessible manner, from the foundations to the frontiers of the field, and clearly explains all the necessary economic principles along the way. Cost Benefit Analysis and Health Care Evaluations will be invaluable to students and researchers of economics, public policy and health care policy, as well as policymakers and health care practitioners. It can also be used as a comprehensive introductory text by anyone with an interest in cost benefit analysis.

Author : G. W. Irvin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Cost Benefit Methods written by G. W. Irvin and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : P. Richard G. Layard
Publisher : Harmondsworth : Penguin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cost-benefit Analysis written by P. Richard G. Layard and published by Harmondsworth : Penguin. This book was released on 1972 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised second edition covers all the main problems that arise in a typical cost-benefit exercise. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Anandarup Ray
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cost-benefit Analysis written by Anandarup Ray and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of distribution weight; Social valuation; Valuation of traded and nontraded goods; Consumption investment, and interest rases; Using variable weights: techniques ...

Author : Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher : American Bar Association
ISBN 13 : 9781590310540
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cost-benefit State written by Cass R. Sunstein and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the current topic of Federal Government regulations increasingly assessed by asking whether the benefits of the regulation justifies the cost of the regulation.