Rationale: There are many interventions for HIV|AIDS that require that people know their status and hence require a HIV test. Testing that is driven by a desire to prevent the spread of the disease often has an indirect effect on others. These external effects need to be identified, quantified...

This paper revisits the issue of whether to include maintenance costs in an economic evaluation in mental health. The source of these maintenance costs may be public or private transfers. The issue is discussed in terms of a formal cost-benefit criterion. It is shown that, when transfers have...

To date, the distinction between money income and utility income has been recognized only in an efficiency context. This article argues that it is also srgnificant in an income redistribution context and can be used to identify the form which such redistribution is to take, cash or kind. To...

It is now almost accepted practice that distributional weights be incorporated into cost-benefit criteria. While there are still major dissenters on this issue, notably Harberger, the relevant questions now involve the nature of the weights themselves. A number of alternative formulations have...

A neglected area of cost-benefit theory is the evaluation of federal government loans Abstract to finance private investment. This article builds on a model by Feldstein (1973) which disaggregated public investment decisions into two parts; one is the expenditure on the good to be purchased by...