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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A Benefit–Cost Analysis of Tulsa Pre-K, Based on Effects on High-School Graduation and College Attendance	25
Cost–Benefit Analysis of Bus Fare Subsidies under Financial Constraints: The Case of Asunción, Paraguay	19
Economic Evaluation Under Ambiguity and Structural Uncertainties	17
A Tale of the Tails: The Value of a Statistical Life at the Tails of the Age Distribution	17
Funding a Just Transition Away from Coal in the U.S. Considering Avoided Damage from Air Pollution	17
Benefit–cost analysis in the 5.9 GHz band	16
Regulatory Impact Analysis and Litigation Risk	15
Be Brief, Be Consistent, Be Neutral: Comments on US Draft Circular A-4, “Regulatory Analysis”	13
Why Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Social Welfare Function Is Not Society’s Social Welfare Function	12
Mask Mandate Costs	12
A Benefit-Cost Analysis of Increased International Migration of Skilled Labor in Africa and the World	10
From Benefit–Cost Analysis to Social Welfare: A Pragmatic Approach	10
When Can Benefit–Cost Analyses Ignore Secondary Markets?	10
Valuing a Reduction in the Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease: A Large-Scale Multi-Country Stated Preference Approach	9
Comparing the Draft and Final Circular A-4	9
Introduction to the Special Issue	7
Social Welfare Functions and Health Policy: A New Approach	7
Do Opportunity Costs of Regulations Appropriately Benefit or Inappropriately Burden Disadvantaged Consumers?	6
BCA volume 15 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	6
The Incomparable Jerry Ellig	6
Assessing Risk, Effectiveness, and Benefits in Transportation Regulation	5
Ex-Ante Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of Legalizing Cannabis Markets in the Czech Republic	5
Benefit–Cost Analysis of Increased Trade: An Order-of-Magnitude Estimate of the Benefit–Cost Ratio	5
Is Communications-Company Ownership of Video Content a Threat to Competition?	5
Distribution and Disputation: Net Benefits, Equity, and Public Decision-Making	5

The Global Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparing Benefit–Cost Analysis and Social Welfare Analysis	5
What OIRA Peer Reviewers Advised Regarding Notable Proposed Updates to Circular A-4: An Ignored Consensus?	4
Valuing a Reduction in the Risk and Severity of Asthma: A Large Scale Multi-Country Stated Preference Approach	4
The Elasticity of Marginal Utility of Income for Distributional Weighting and Social Discounting: A Meta-Analysis	3
BCA volume 16 issue S2 Cover and Front matter	3
Best Investments in Chronic, Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control in Low- and Lower–Middle-Income Countries – CORRIGENDUM	3
Advice on Guidance: Peer Review of Draft Circular A-4 “Regulatory Analysis”	3
Applying the Regulatory Report Card to Tax Regulations	2
Don’t TREAD on Anyone? The Political Economy and Effectiveness of Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems	2
Investing in Nutrition: A Global Best Investment Case	2
Sustainable Development Goal Halftime Project: Benefit-Cost Analysis Using Methods from the Decade of Vaccine Economics Model	2
Letter from Former SBCA Presidents and JBCA Editors to OIRA Administrator	2
Application of an Epi-Econ-Model to Analyze COVID-19 Lockdown Policies in the Netherlands: Lessons and Limitations	2
BCA volume 14 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	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	1
The Generalized Risk-Adjusted Cost-Effectiveness (GRACE) Model for Measuring the Value of Gains in Health: An Exact Formulation	1
Valuing Heat-Related Mortality Risks	1
The Net Benefits and Residual Cost from U.S. Border Management of the Initially Inadmissible	1
BCA volume 14 issue S1 Cover and Front matter	1
Citizen Preferences and BCA: A Model of Willingness-to-Pay behind a Veil of Ignorance	1
The Health-Augmented Lifecycle Model – CORRIGENDUM	1
Lessons to Be Learned from Impact Assessments in Times of Crises: A Qualitative Analysis of Finnish Law-Drafting during COVID-19	1
The Health-Augmented Lifecycle Model	0
Renewable Energy Support Through Feed-in Tariffs: A Retrospective Stakeholder Analysis	0
What Are the Effects of Early Childhood Exposure to Environmental Lead on Personality?	0
The Influence of the Benefit–Cost Analysis on Policy Evaluation in the European Union	0
Forecast Errors and Welfare Conclusions Based on the Flyvbjerg Database	0
The Coordination Value of Regulation	0
Ex Ante Costs Versus Ex Post Costs of the Large Municipal Waste Combustor Rule	0
Regulatory Impact Analysis Guidelines: Introduction to Special Issue	0
Cost–Benefit Analysis of an “Average” Professional Sports Team or Stadium in the United States	0
BCA volume 16 issue 2-3 Cover and Front matter	0
Estimated Values of Avoiding Cancer Risks by Cancer Site and Population	0
BCA volume 15 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
A Test of Hirschman’s Hiding Hand Principle in World Bank-Financed Hydropower Projects	0
Guidance Is Not Enough: U.S. Circular A-4, “Regulatory Analysis”	0
The Right Numeraire or the Just Weights? How to Make BCA Rational and Fair	0
An Investment Case for the Scale-up and Use of Insecticide-Treated Nets Halfway into the SDG Targets	0
The Shadow Prices of Voluntary Caregiving: Using Well-Being Panel Data to Estimate the Cost of Informal Care	0
Economic Efficiency-Based Benefit–Cost Analysis: Comments on Circular A-4	0
Specifying the Baseline in Benefit–Cost Analysis: Comments on U.S. Draft Circular A4	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
The Welfare Cost of Beijing’s Lottery Policy: Evidence from a Contingent Valuation Survey	0
One Million Lives Saved Per Year: A Cost–Benefit Analysis of the Global Plan to End Tuberculosis, 2023–2030 and Beyond	0
BCA volume 15 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
“What’s Your Problem?”: Building an Evidence-Based System of Regulatory Analysis from the Bottom-Up	0
Redistributive Regulations and Deadweight Loss	0
Lessons from Applying Value of Statistical Life and Alternate Methods to Benefit–Cost Analysis to Inform Development Spending	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
Sustainable Development Goal Halftime Project: Benefit-Cost Analysis Using Methods from the Decade of Vaccine Economics Model – CORRIGENDUM	0
Regulatory Reform: Results and Challenges	0
The Military VSL	0
Seven Recommendations for Pricing Greenhouse Gas Emissions	0
Differences by Race and Ethnicity in Title IX’s Effect on Women’s Health	0
BCA volume 16 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Revision of Circular A-4 Is Warranted to Reflect the Advances in Scholarship Relevant to Regulatory Analysis, but Some Caveats Are in Order	0
BCA volume 16 issue S1 Cover and Front matter	0
Estimating Lost Dividends from Incomplete Energy Access Transitions	0
Regulators Should Value Nonhuman Animals	0
Distributional weighting and welfare/equity tradeoffs: a new approach	0
The Investment Case for E-Government Procurement: A Cost–Benefit Analysis	0
Viscusi Circular A-4 Peer Review Comments and Guidance for Future Revisions	0
Ethics and Benefit–Cost Analysis: Introduction to the Special Issue	0
Reorganization of Economists at the FCC: The Role of Decision Rights, Control Systems, and Culture	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
Discounting in Natural Resource Damage Assessment	0
An Equity Blindspot: The Incidence of Regulatory Costs	0
BCA volume 16 issue S1 Cover and Back matter	0
BCA volume 15 issue S1 Cover and Front matter	0
The Costs and Benefits of a Local DNA Database	0
Policy Diffusion, Environmental Federalism, and Economic Efficiency – How Institutions Influence the Implementation of EU Legislation in Two Nordic Countries	0
Improving Learning in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries	0
Adaptable Tool for Modeling the Benefits and Costs of Substance Use Disorder Recovery Programs	0
The Investment Case for Land Tenure Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cost–Benefit Analysis	0
Open Exceptions: Why Does the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA) Exempts RIA and Ex Post Reviews?	0
Benefit–Cost Analysis of Increased Funding for Agricultural Research and Development in the Global South	0
Ensuring Durability and Objectivity in Regulatory Analysis: Comments on OMB Circular A-4	0
The Economic Benefit of Recycling: An Application of Travel Cost Method to Estimate the Consumer Surplus	0
Discounting in Natural Resource Damage Assessment – Erratum	0
Promoting Equity through Equitable Risk Tradeoffs	0
BCA volume 14 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Inequality and the Value of a Statistical Life	0
BCA volume 14 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Monetizing Animal Welfare Impacts for Benefit–Cost Analysis	0
When Patients are Assailants: Valuing Occupational Risks in Health Care	0
The Value of Life in the Social Cost of Carbon: A Critique and a Proposal	0
Achieving Maternal and Neonatal Mortality Development Goals Effectively: A Cost-Benefit Analysis	0
An Ancillary Effect of Patient Navigation Following Detox: Fewer Arrests	0