We conduct a comparative welfare analysis of 133 historical policy changes over the past
half-century in the United States, focusing on policies in social insurance, education and job …

This paper estimates the long-run effects of childhood Medicaid eligibility on adult health
and economic outcomes using the program's original introduction (1966–1970) and its …

We use data from the Head Start Impact Study (HSIS) to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of
Head Start, the largest early childhood education program in the United States. Head Start …

We describe a frame work for empirical welfare analysis that uses the causal estimates of a
policy's impact on net government spending. This framework provides guidance for which …

Tax avoidance and evasion are pervasive in all countries, and tax structures are
undoubtedly skewed by this reality. Standard models of taxation and their conclusions must …

Governments around the world redistribute to distressed areas by conditioning taxes and
transfers on location. We show that when poor households are spatially concentrated …

Acclaim for first edition: The author succeeds in bringing together many interesting real-life
applications of CBA in various areas (including among others health, environment and …

This paper illustrates how one can use causal effects of a policy change to measure its
welfare impact without decomposing them into income and substitution effects. Often, a …

In the Handbook of Public Economics, vol. 5, top scholars provide context and order to new
research about mechanisms that underlie both public finance theories and applications …

Economists have long been concerned with finding an efficient level of public expenditure.
The classic statement of the problem was given by Paul Samuelson (1954). An optimal level …