Economic Analysis Methodology

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Cost and Outcomes Analysis of Child Well-Being

This book chapter explores the use of cost and outcome measures as a complement to traditional program evaluation in assessing child well-being, especially for early childhood intervention programs.

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Internationally Comparable Health Indices

This project addressed the lack of comparable health measures and indices across nations by developing a cross-national model for measuring health status. In applying the measures to several nations, the study found significant variability in genuine health that correlates most closely with national income.

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Identifying the Aggregate Productivity Effects of Entry and Size Restrictions: An Empirical Analysis of License Reform in India

This paper proposes a simple methodology that empirically identifies the separate effects of entry and size restrictions on aggregate productivity, and uses it to analyse the impact of a policy reform in India.

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Internationally Comparable Health Indices

This project addressed the lack of comparable health measures and indices across nations by developing a cross-national model for measuring health status..

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The Missing Theory of Variable Selection in the Economic Analysis of Tort Law

The Article argues that the economic analysis of tort law has yet to satisfactorily answer a critical threshold question: which of the many inputs that lead to an accident should be included in a court's liability analysis?

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Ethics and Policy Analysis

Policy analysis usually defines its objectives and constraints too narrowly. It rarely includes consideration of social justice, and more seldom such values as beauty, honor, and dignity.

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Pricing Policies for the Space Shuttle

Considers the economic principles germane to the formulation and evaluation of alternative pricing policies for the space shuttle.

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The Possibility of a Social Welfare Function: Comment

No stable outcome normally exists with vote trading; the author points out flaws in James S. Coleman's social welfare function model.

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Weather Information: Its Uses, Actual and Potential

A study of ways of comparing the cost of planned atmospheric research with the value of the benefits derived. The authors find in this Memorandum that no aggregation of all resulting socioeconomic values is meaningful.

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Bargaining and Group Decision Making: Experiments in Bilateral Monopoly

Review of a book: Bargaining and Group Decision Making: Experiments in Bilateral Monopoly, by Sidney Siegel and Lawrence E. Fouraker.

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The Exchange Between Quantity and Quality

In economic analysis, the cost isoquant between two different commodities from the point of view of a purchaser or a producer is in the general (possibly noncompetitive) case assumed to be concave to the origin.

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Sasha Romanosky

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Jessie Coe

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Charlotte Davies

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Andrew W. Dick

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Alex R. Dopp

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Giovanni Amodeo

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Beth J. Asch

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James Hosek

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Susan M. Gates