Following the prototype of Mexico's Progresa program, a number of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have initiated conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs. More recently, countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have followed suit. However, no comprehensive framework to carry out a cost...

H andbook of Research on Cost-Benefit Analysis Edited by Robert J. Brent Professor of Economics, Fordham University, USA Edward Elgar Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA Contents List of contributors vii Preface ...

This Handbook provides an authoritative overview of current research in the field of cost-benefit analysis and is designed as a starting point for those interested in undertaking advanced research. The Handbook contains major contributions to the development of the field, focussing on standard...

Acclaim for the first edition: '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...

This paper examines the tax implications of systems of care for psychiatric patients that rely more on the provision of services in the community rather than in state hospitals. State governments pay the costs of patient care in state hospitals, but share costs with the federal government (via...

The Shadow Wage Rate (SWR), like any shadow price, is a function of the social objectives set for the particular country. Brent [1984 and 1986] has argued that one should consider the number of uncompensated losers from a public investment as a third social objective (together with the usual...

This paper presents a method for determining shadow prices for a physician's services on the basis of actual prices charges. The Ramsey rule is used as the shadow-pricing formula. This is combined with the physician's profit-maximizing condition to produce an expression for the social prices in...