OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
A Benefit–Cost Analysis of Tulsa Pre-K, Based on Effects on High-School Graduation and College Attendance	38
Cost–Benefit Analysis of Bus Fare Subsidies under Financial Constraints: The Case of Asunción, Paraguay	22
A Tale of the Tails: The Value of a Statistical Life at the Tails of the Age Distribution	16
Funding a Just Transition Away from Coal in the U.S. Considering Avoided Damage from Air Pollution	16
Benefit–cost analysis in the 5.9 GHz band	15
Economic Evaluation Under Ambiguity and Structural Uncertainties	15
Why Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Social Welfare Function Is Not Society’s Social Welfare Function	14
Regulatory Impact Analysis and Litigation Risk	14
From Benefit–Cost Analysis to Social Welfare: A Pragmatic Approach	13
Prospective Evaluation of Health Communication Effects on Market Outcomes	12
Mask Mandate Costs	11
Be Brief, Be Consistent, Be Neutral: Comments on US Draft Circular A-4, “Regulatory Analysis”	11
BCA volume 13 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	10
When Can Benefit–Cost Analyses Ignore Secondary Markets?	9
A Benefit-Cost Analysis of Increased International Migration of Skilled Labor in Africa and the World	9
Introduction to the Special Issue	8
Valuing a Reduction in the Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease: A Large-Scale Multi-Country Stated Preference Approach	8
Comparing the Draft and Final Circular A-4	8
Demand for an Environmental Public Good in the Time of COVID-19: A Statewide Water Quality Referendum	8
Categorizing and Ranking Graphs in Economics Research: The American Economic Review over the Last Century	8
Social Welfare Functions and Health Policy: A New Approach	7
BCA volume 13 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	7
BCA volume 15 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	7
The Broad Impacts of Disposable Lighter Safety Regulations	7
The Incomparable Jerry Ellig	6

Do Opportunity Costs of Regulations Appropriately Benefit or Inappropriately Burden Disadvantaged Consumers?	6
Is Communications-Company Ownership of Video Content a Threat to Competition?	5
Distribution and Disputation: Net Benefits, Equity, and Public Decision-Making	5
Benefit–Cost Analysis of Increased Trade: An Order-of-Magnitude Estimate of the Benefit–Cost Ratio	5
Assessing Risk, Effectiveness, and Benefits in Transportation Regulation	5
Advice on Guidance: Peer Review of Draft Circular A-4 “Regulatory Analysis”	5
The Global Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparing Benefit–Cost Analysis and Social Welfare Analysis	5
Costs and Benefits of Branded Drugs: Insights from Cost-Effectiveness Research	5
Valuing a Reduction in the Risk and Severity of Asthma: A Large Scale Multi-Country Stated Preference Approach	4
What OIRA Peer Reviewers Advised Regarding Notable Proposed Updates to Circular A-4: An Ignored Consensus?	4
The Elasticity of Marginal Utility of Income for Distributional Weighting and Social Discounting: A Meta-Analysis	4
Ex-Ante Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of Legalizing Cannabis Markets in the Czech Republic	4
Letter from Former SBCA Presidents and JBCA Editors to OIRA Administrator	3
Best Investments in Chronic, Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control in Low- and Lower–Middle-Income Countries – CORRIGENDUM	3
Applying the Regulatory Report Card to Tax Regulations	3
BCA volume 14 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	3
Sustainable Development Goal Halftime Project: Benefit-Cost Analysis Using Methods from the Decade of Vaccine Economics Model	3
Don’t TREAD on Anyone? The Political Economy and Effectiveness of Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems	2
Three Misconceptions about Federal Regulation	2
The Health-Augmented Lifecycle Model – CORRIGENDUM	2
Investing in Nutrition: A Global Best Investment Case	2
Application of an Epi-Econ-Model to Analyze COVID-19 Lockdown Policies in the Netherlands: Lessons and Limitations	2
How is the U.S. Pricing Carbon? How Could We Price Carbon?	2
Valuing Heat-Related Mortality Risks	2
Efficiency vs. Welfare in Benefit–Cost Analysis: The Case of Government Funding	2
An Assessment of the Climate Damage Costs of European Short-Lived Climate Forcers	2
BCA volume 13 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	2
The Net Benefits and Residual Cost from U.S. Border Management of the Initially Inadmissible	1
The Generalized Risk-Adjusted Cost-Effectiveness (GRACE) Model for Measuring the Value of Gains in Health: An Exact Formulation	1
Distributional weighting and welfare/equity tradeoffs: a new approach	1
Lessons to Be Learned from Impact Assessments in Times of Crises: A Qualitative Analysis of Finnish Law-Drafting during COVID-19	1
BCA volume 14 issue S1 Cover and Front matter	1
Ethics and Benefit–Cost Analysis: Introduction to the Special Issue	1
Citizen Preferences and BCA: A Model of Willingness-to-Pay behind a Veil of Ignorance	1
BCA volume 13 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
Monetizing Animal Welfare Impacts for Benefit–Cost Analysis	1
An Ancillary Effect of Patient Navigation Following Detox: Fewer Arrests	0
Redistributive Regulations and Deadweight Loss	0
Policy Diffusion, Environmental Federalism, and Economic Efficiency – How Institutions Influence the Implementation of EU Legislation in Two Nordic Countries	0
When Patients are Assailants: Valuing Occupational Risks in Health Care	0
The Coordination Value of Regulation	0
Ex Ante Costs Versus Ex Post Costs of the Large Municipal Waste Combustor Rule	0
Inequality and the Value of a Statistical Life	0
Valuing COVID-19 Morbidity Risk Reductions	0
Cost–Benefit Analysis of an “Average” Professional Sports Team or Stadium in the United States	0
Estimating Lost Dividends from Incomplete Energy Access Transitions	0
Paying a Premium for “Green Steel”: Paying for an Illusion?	0
BCA volume 14 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Discounting in Natural Resource Damage Assessment – Erratum	0
Regulatory Reform: Results and Challenges	0

A Test of Hirschman’s Hiding Hand Principle in World Bank-Financed Hydropower Projects	0
The Military VSL	0
Viscusi Circular A-4 Peer Review Comments and Guidance for Future Revisions	0
Dynamic Versus Static Modeling of Mortality-Related Benefits of PM_2.5 Reductions in the USA and Chile: 1990 to 2050	0
Is California’s Electric Vehicle Rebate Regressive? A Distributional Analysis	0
The Value of Life in the Social Cost of Carbon: A Critique and a Proposal	0
The Investment Case for Land Tenure Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cost–Benefit Analysis	0
Lessons from Applying Value of Statistical Life and Alternate Methods to Benefit–Cost Analysis to Inform Development Spending	0
BCA volume 15 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Ensuring Durability and Objectivity in Regulatory Analysis: Comments on OMB Circular A-4	0
Differences by Race and Ethnicity in Title IX’s Effect on Women’s Health	0
BCA volume 16 issue S1 Cover and Back matter	0
The Economic Benefit of Recycling: An Application of Travel Cost Method to Estimate the Consumer Surplus	0
Guidance Is Not Enough: U.S. Circular A-4, “Regulatory Analysis”	0
The Costs and Benefits of a Local DNA Database	0
BCA volume 15 issue S1 Cover and Front matter	0
Renewable Energy Support Through Feed-in Tariffs: A Retrospective Stakeholder Analysis	0
Best Investments in Chronic, Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control in Low- and Lower–Middle-Income Countries	0
On the Design of a Regulatory System	0
An Investment Case for the Scale-up and Use of Insecticide-Treated Nets Halfway into the SDG Targets	0
The Health-Augmented Lifecycle Model	0
Specifying the Baseline in Benefit–Cost Analysis: Comments on U.S. Draft Circular A4	0
The Shadow Prices of Voluntary Caregiving: Using Well-Being Panel Data to Estimate the Cost of Informal Care	0
BCA volume 16 issue S1 Cover and Front matter	0
BCA volume 13 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Open Exceptions: Why Does the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA) Exempts RIA and Ex Post Reviews?	0
Seven Recommendations for Pricing Greenhouse Gas Emissions	0
The Welfare Cost of Beijing’s Lottery Policy: Evidence from a Contingent Valuation Survey	0
Economic Efficiency-Based Benefit–Cost Analysis: Comments on Circular A-4	0
Estimated Values of Avoiding Cancer Risks by Cancer Site and Population	0
“What’s Your Problem?”: Building an Evidence-Based System of Regulatory Analysis from the Bottom-Up	0
Save 4.2 Million Lives and Generate $1.1 Trillion in Economic Benefits for Only $41 Billion: Introduction to the Special Issue on the Most Efficient Policies for the Sustainable Development Goals	0
BCA volume 16 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
An Equity Blindspot: The Incidence of Regulatory Costs	0
BCA volume 14 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
One Million Lives Saved Per Year: A Cost–Benefit Analysis of the Global Plan to End Tuberculosis, 2023–2030 and Beyond	0
The Benefits and Costs of a Child Allowance	0
The Influence of the Benefit–Cost Analysis on Policy Evaluation in the European Union	0
Early Education and Adult Health: Age 37 Impacts and Economic Benefits of the Child-Parent Center Preschool Program	0
Reorganization of Economists at the FCC: The Role of Decision Rights, Control Systems, and Culture	0
Regulatory Impact Analysis Guidelines: Introduction to Special Issue	0
Forecast Errors and Welfare Conclusions Based on the Flyvbjerg Database	0
The Investment Case for E-Government Procurement: A Cost–Benefit Analysis	0
Risk Perception, Learning, and Willingness to Pay to Reduce Heart Disease Risk	0
Adaptable Tool for Modeling the Benefits and Costs of Substance Use Disorder Recovery Programs	0
The Weak Spot of Infrastructure BCA: Cost Overruns in Seven Road and Railway Construction Projects	0
Sustainable Development Goal Halftime Project: Benefit-Cost Analysis Using Methods from the Decade of Vaccine Economics Model – CORRIGENDUM	0
The Value of Statistical Life: A Meta-Analysis of Meta-Analyses	0
Promoting Equity through Equitable Risk Tradeoffs	0
The Right Numeraire or the Just Weights? How to Make BCA Rational and Fair	0
Three Criteria for Evaluating Social Programs	0
Discounting in Natural Resource Damage Assessment	0
Regulators Should Value Nonhuman Animals	0
Benefit–Cost Analysis of Increased Funding for Agricultural Research and Development in the Global South	0
Time Savings vs. Access-Based Benefit Assessment of New York’s Second Avenue Subway	0
BCA volume 15 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
BCA volume 13 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Achieving Maternal and Neonatal Mortality Development Goals Effectively: A Cost-Benefit Analysis	0
All Cancers Are not Created Equal: How Do Survival Prospects Affect the Willingness to Pay to Avoid Cancer?	0
BCA volume 15 issue S1 Cover and Back matter	0
Benefit-Cost Ratios of Continuing Routine Immunization During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa	0
What Are the Effects of Early Childhood Exposure to Environmental Lead on Personality?	0
Improving Learning in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries	0
“We Test”: An Imagined Regulatory Future	0