This chapter examines the relationship between health and economic growth. Across
countries, income per capita is highly correlated with health, as measured by life expectancy …

Standard cost-effectiveness models compare incremental cost increases to incremental
average gains in health, commonly expressed in Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs). Our …

The 2015 edition of the Global Burden of Armed Violence provides a wealth of data relevant
to security and the post-2015 sustainable development framework. It estimates that 508,000 …

The United States and United Kingdom have long-standing traditions in the use of
environmental benefit-cost analysis (E-BCA). While there are similarities between how E …

Objective To provide a new approach to estimate optimal willingness to pay (WTP) for health
technology assessment (HTA). Study Design This analysis specified utility as a function of …

The generalized risk-adjusted cost-effectiveness (GRACE) analysis method modifies
standard cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), the primary method currently used worldwide to …

We study how people react to small probability events with large negative consequences
using the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic as a natural experiment. Our analysis is based …

This paper presents the Measurement Framework of the OECD Inclusive Growth Initiative, a
horizontal project that the OECD launched in 2012 to develop a new vision of economic …

We ask whether a pay‐as‐you‐go financed social security system is welfare improving in an
economy with idiosyncratic and aggregate risk. We show that the whole welfare benefit from …

Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) plays an important role in health policy debates, helping
to shape resource allocation and pricing decisions. Yet many economists also recognize …