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| James Hammitt | Lisa Robinson
Conducting Benefit-Cost Analysis in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Introduction to the Special Issue. Lisa Robinson, James Hammitt, 2019, Paper, "Investing in global health and development requires making difficult choices about what policies to pursue and what level of resources to devote to different initiatives. Methods of economic evaluation are well established and widely used to quantify and compare the impacts of alternative investments…
| Lisa Robinson | James Hammitt
Assessing the Distribution of Impacts in Global Benefit‐Cost Analysis. Lisa A. Robinson, James K. Hammitt, October 2017, Paper, "There is widespread agreement that benefit‐cost analyses should be supplemented with information on how the impacts are distributed across individuals with different characterics (such as income) . Yet reviews of completed analyses suggest that such information is rarely provided. The goal of this paper is therefore…
| Richard Zeckhauser | James Hammitt | Lisa Robinson
Attention to Distribution in U.S. Regulatory Analyses. Lisa Robinson, James Hammitt, Richard Zeckhauser, Summer 2016, Paper, "Scholars, decision makers, interest groups, and other concerned citizens are often interested in the distribution of regulatory impacts. To what extent does a regulation benefit or harm those who have high or low incomes, are in good or poor health, are more or less vulnerable to disease, or are very young or very old?…