Applied benefit cost analysis Recommended readings (Machine generated): Zvi Griliches (1958) Research Costs and Social Returns: Hybrid Corn and Related Innovations Journal of Political Economy 66 419 31 Erik Lichtenberg and David Zilberman (1986) The Welfare Economics of Price Supports in U.S. Agriculture American Economic Review 76(5) December 1135 41 Troy G. Schmitz Andrew Schmitz and Chris Dumas (1997) Gains From Trade Inefficiency of Government Programs and the Net Economic Effects of Trading Journal of Political Economy 105 (3) 637 47 Andrew Schmitz Frederick Rossi and Troy G. Schmitz (2007) Agricultural Subsidies Under Decoupling Research in Law and Economics 23 131 48 Rulon Pope Jean Paul Chavas and Richard Just (1983) Economic Welfare Evaluations for Producers under Uncertainty American Journal of Agricultural Economics 65 February 98 107 David H. Greenberg and Douglas A. Wolf (1985) Is Wage Matching Worth All the Trouble Public Welfare 43 Winter 13 20 Morris S. Berman (1989) Vision Care in a Juvenile Detention Facility Optometry and Vision Science 66(1) January 23 5 David H. Greenberg (1997) The Leisure Bias in Cost Benefit Analyses of Employment and Training Programs Journal of Human Resources XXXII (2) 413 39 Clive R. Belfield Milagros Nores Steve Barnett and Lawrence Schweinhart (2006) The High Scope Perry Preschool Program: Cost Benefit Analysis Using Data from the Age 40 Followup Journal of Human Resources XLI (1) Winter 162 90 Flavio Cunha and James Heckman (2007) The Economics of Human Development: The Technology of Skill Formation American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 97 (2) May 31 47 Glenn P. Jenkins (1999) Evaluation of Stakeholder Impacts in Cost Benefit Analysis Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 17(2) 87 96 Timothy L. McDaniels Robin S. Gregory and Daryl Fields (1999) Democratizing Risk Management: Successful Public Involvement in Local Water Management Decisions Risk Analysis 19 (3) 497 510 Alvin Ulrich Hartley Furtan and Andrew Schmitz (1986) Public and Private Returns from Joint Venture Research: An Example from Agriculture Quarterly Journal of Economics CI (1) February 103 29 Lester B. Lave (1981) Conflicting Objectives in Regulating the Automobile Science 212 May 893 9 David L. Weimer and Aidan R. Vining (1989) An Illustration: Taxing Alcohol to Save Lives in Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practice Upper Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice Hall 267 83 Gary M. Ginsberg and Don S. Silverberg (1994) A Cost Benefit Analysis of Legislation for Bicycle Safety Helmets in Israel American Journal of Public Health 84 (4) April 653 6 Richard Gray and Stavroula Malla (2001) The Evaluation of the Economic and External Health Benefits from Canola Research in Julian M. Alston (ed) Philip G. Pardey (ed) and Michael J. Taylor (ed) (eds) Agricultural Science Policy: Changing Global Agendas Chapter 11 Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press 211 37 references W. Kip Viscusi and Joseph E. Aldy (2003) The Value of a Statistical Life: A Critical Review of Market Estimates Throughout the World Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 27 (1) 5 76 Anthony Boardman Aidan Vining and W.G. Waters II (1993) Costs and Benefits through Bureaucratic Lenses: Example of a Highway Project Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 12 (3) 532 55 Benefit cost analysis reduces all of the impacts of a proposed policy change to a common unit of measurement. It is used in a wide variety of fields including agriculture life and health transportation and the environment. In this single volume the editors both leading scholars in their field present a judicious selection of previously published papers indispensable to the study of applied benefit cost analysis. The comprehensive collection is an essential resource to scholars researchers and policymakers alike What GAO Found in US GAO Highway and Transit Investments: Options for Improving Information on Projects Benefits and Costs and Increasing Accountability for Results GA0 05 172 24 January 2005 available at http: www.gao.gov new.items d05172 front page Troy G. Schmitz Tim Highmoor and Andrew Schmitz (2002) Termination of the WGTA: An Examination of Factor Market Distortions Input Subsidies and Compensation Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 50 333 47 Raymond J. Kopp and V. Kerry Smith (1989) Benefit Estimation Goes to Court: The Case of Natural Resource Damage Assessments Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 8 (4) 593 612 Executive Summary in The Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act 1990 to 2010: EPA Report to Congress November 1999 accessed 2 July 2007 at http: www.epa.gov oar sect812 1990 2010 fullrept.pdf i vi Scott Farrow and Michael Toman (1999) Using Benefit Cost Analysis to Improve Environmental Regulation Environment 41 (2) 12 15 and 33 7 reset Richard T. Carson Robert C. Mitchell Michael Hanemann Raymond J. Kopp Stanley Presser and Paul A. Ruud (2003) Contingent Valuation and Lost Passive Use: Damages from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Environmental and Resource Economics 25 (3) 257 86 John P. Hoehn and Alan Randall (1989) Too Many Proposals Pass the Benefit Cost Test American Economic Review 79 (3) June 544 51 Robert W. Hahn (1998) Policy Watch: Government Analysis of the Benefits and Costs of Regulation Journal of Economic Perspectives 12 (4) Fall 201 10 Kenneth J. Arrow Maureen L. Cropper George C. Eads Robert W. Hahn Lester B. Lave Roger G. Noll Paul R. Portney Milton Russell Richard Schmalensee V. Kerry Smith and Robert N. Stavins (1996) A Statement of Principles in Benefit Cost Analysis in Environmental Health and Safety Regulation La Vergne TX: AEI Press 1 12 Matthew A. Wilson and John P. Hoehn (2006) Valuing Environmental Goods and Services Using Benefit Transfer: The State of the Art and Science Ecological Economics 60 335 42 Daniel H. Cole (2007)  Best Practice Standards for Regulatory Benefit Cost Analysis Research in Law and Economics 23 1 47 Andrew Schmitz Charles B. Moss and Troy G. Schmitz (2007) Ethanol: No Free Lunch Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization 5 Article 3 available at http: www.bepress.com jafio vol5 iss2 art3 1 26 Richard O. Zerbe Jr. (1980) The Costs and Benefits of Early Regulation of the Railroads Bell Journal of Economics 11 (1) 343 50 Alvin Ulrich William H. Furtan and Andrew Schmitz (1987) The Cost of a Licensing System Regulation: An Example from Canadian Prairie Agriculture Journal of Political Economy 95 (1) 160 78 Jason K. Burnett and Robert W. Hahn (2001) A Costly Benefit: Economic Analysis Does Not Support EPAs New Arsenic Rule Regulation 24 Fall 44 9 Richard Wilson (2001) Underestimating Arsenics Risk: The Latest Science Supports Tighter Standards Regulation 24 Fall 50 53