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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A Benefit–Cost Analysis of Tulsa Pre-K, Based on Effects on High-School Graduation and College Attendance	36
A Tale of the Tails: The Value of a Statistical Life at the Tails of the Age Distribution	20
Funding a Just Transition Away from Coal in the U.S. Considering Avoided Damage from Air Pollution	15
Cost–Benefit Analysis of Bus Fare Subsidies under Financial Constraints: The Case of Asunción, Paraguay	15
Prospective Evaluation of Health Communication Effects on Market Outcomes	14
Economic Evaluation Under Ambiguity and Structural Uncertainties	14
From Benefit–Cost Analysis to Social Welfare: A Pragmatic Approach	13
Mask Mandate Costs	12
Be Brief, Be Consistent, Be Neutral: Comments on US Draft Circular A-4, “Regulatory Analysis”	11
Benefit–cost analysis in the 5.9 GHz band	9
Why Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Social Welfare Function Is Not Society’s Social Welfare Function	9
BCA volume 13 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	8
Regulatory Impact Analysis and Litigation Risk	8
Demand for an Environmental Public Good in the Time of COVID-19: A Statewide Water Quality Referendum	7
When Can Benefit–Cost Analyses Ignore Secondary Markets?	7
Categorizing and Ranking Graphs in Economics Research: The American Economic Review over the Last Century	7
Valuing a Reduction in the Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease: A Large-Scale Multi-Country Stated Preference Approach	7
A Benefit-Cost Analysis of Increased International Migration of Skilled Labor in Africa and the World	7
Comparing the Draft and Final Circular A-4	6
Social Welfare Functions and Health Policy: A New Approach	6
Introduction to the Special Issue	6
BCA volume 13 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	5
The Incomparable Jerry Ellig	5
BCA volume 15 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	5
Do Opportunity Costs of Regulations Appropriately Benefit or Inappropriately Burden Disadvantaged Consumers?	5

The Broad Impacts of Disposable Lighter Safety Regulations	5
Costs and Benefits of Branded Drugs: Insights from Cost-Effectiveness Research	5
Benefit–Cost Analysis of Increased Trade: An Order-of-Magnitude Estimate of the Benefit–Cost Ratio	4
Assessing Risk, Effectiveness, and Benefits in Transportation Regulation	4
Distribution and Disputation: Net Benefits, Equity, and Public Decision-Making	4
The Global Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparing Benefit–Cost Analysis and Social Welfare Analysis	4
Advice on Guidance: Peer Review of Draft Circular A-4 “Regulatory Analysis”	3
Is Communications-Company Ownership of Video Content a Threat to Competition?	3
What OIRA Peer Reviewers Advised Regarding Notable Proposed Updates to Circular A-4: An Ignored Consensus?	3
Valuing a Reduction in the Risk and Severity of Asthma: A Large Scale Multi-Country Stated Preference Approach	3
Ex-Ante Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of Legalizing Cannabis Markets in the Czech Republic	3
The Elasticity of Marginal Utility of Income for Distributional Weighting and Social Discounting: A Meta-Analysis	3
How is the U.S. Pricing Carbon? How Could We Price Carbon?	2
Three Misconceptions about Federal Regulation	2
Applying the Regulatory Report Card to Tax Regulations	2
Efficiency vs. Welfare in Benefit–Cost Analysis: The Case of Government Funding	2
Application of an Epi-Econ-Model to Analyze COVID-19 Lockdown Policies in the Netherlands: Lessons and Limitations	2
Best Investments in Chronic, Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control in Low- and Lower–Middle-Income Countries – CORRIGENDUM	2
Don’t TREAD on Anyone? The Political Economy and Effectiveness of Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems	2
BCA volume 14 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	2
Sustainable Development Goal Halftime Project: Benefit-Cost Analysis Using Methods from the Decade of Vaccine Economics Model	2
The Net Benefits and Residual Cost from U.S. Border Management of the Initially Inadmissible	1
Valuing Heat-Related Mortality Risks	1
Citizen Preferences and BCA: A Model of Willingness-to-Pay behind a Veil of Ignorance	1
The Health-Augmented Lifecycle Model – CORRIGENDUM	1
Investing in Nutrition: A Global Best Investment Case	1
BCA volume 13 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	1
An Assessment of the Climate Damage Costs of European Short-Lived Climate Forcers	1
BCA volume 13 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
BCA volume 15 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Distributional weighting and welfare/equity tradeoffs: a new approach	0
Benefit–Cost Analysis of Increased Funding for Agricultural Research and Development in the Global South	0
Dynamic Versus Static Modeling of Mortality-Related Benefits of PM_2.5 Reductions in the USA and Chile: 1990 to 2050	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
BCA volume 16 issue S1 Cover and Front matter	0
The Benefits and Costs of a Child Allowance	0
BCA volume 14 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Ensuring Durability and Objectivity in Regulatory Analysis: Comments on OMB Circular A-4	0
Renewable Energy Support Through Feed-in Tariffs: A Retrospective Stakeholder Analysis	0
Economic Efficiency-Based Benefit–Cost Analysis: Comments on Circular A-4	0
BCA volume 14 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
An Equity Blindspot: The Incidence of Regulatory Costs	0
Benefit-Cost Ratios of Continuing Routine Immunization During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa	0
Regulatory Impact Analysis Guidelines: Introduction to Special Issue	0
The Value of Life in the Social Cost of Carbon: A Critique and a Proposal	0
Valuing COVID-19 Morbidity Risk Reductions	0
When Patients are Assailants: Valuing Occupational Risks in Health Care	0
Risk Perception, Learning, and Willingness to Pay to Reduce Heart Disease Risk	0
An Investment Case for the Scale-up and Use of Insecticide-Treated Nets Halfway into the SDG Targets	0

The Influence of the Benefit–Cost Analysis on Policy Evaluation in the European Union	0
An Ancillary Effect of Patient Navigation Following Detox: Fewer Arrests	0
Best Investments in Chronic, Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control in Low- and Lower–Middle-Income Countries	0
BCA volume 15 issue S1 Cover and Front matter	0
Lessons to Be Learned from Impact Assessments in Times of Crises: A Qualitative Analysis of Finnish Law-Drafting during COVID-19	0
“What’s Your Problem?”: Building an Evidence-Based System of Regulatory Analysis from the Bottom-Up	0
BCA volume 14 issue S1 Cover and Front matter	0
Cost–Benefit Analysis of an “Average” Professional Sports Team or Stadium in the United States	0
Monetizing Animal Welfare Impacts for Benefit–Cost Analysis	0
Open Exceptions: Why Does the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA) Exempts RIA and Ex Post Reviews?	0
Paying a Premium for “Green Steel”: Paying for an Illusion?	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
Discounting in Natural Resource Damage Assessment – Erratum	0
The Coordination Value of Regulation	0
The Health-Augmented Lifecycle Model	0
BCA volume 16 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
The Welfare Cost of Beijing’s Lottery Policy: Evidence from a Contingent Valuation Survey	0
BCA volume 13 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
The Costs and Benefits of a Local DNA Database	0
What Are the Effects of Early Childhood Exposure to Environmental Lead on Personality?	0
“We Test”: An Imagined Regulatory Future	0
Guidance Is Not Enough: U.S. Circular A-4, “Regulatory Analysis”	0
BCA volume 15 issue S1 Cover and Back matter	0
Is California’s Electric Vehicle Rebate Regressive? A Distributional Analysis	0
The Investment Case for E-Government Procurement: A Cost–Benefit Analysis	0
Improving Learning in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries	0
Promoting Equity through Equitable Risk Tradeoffs	0
BCA volume 16 issue S1 Cover and Back matter	0
Early Education and Adult Health: Age 37 Impacts and Economic Benefits of the Child-Parent Center Preschool Program	0
Estimated Values of Avoiding Cancer Risks by Cancer Site and Population	0
Forecast Errors and Welfare Conclusions Based on the Flyvbjerg Database	0
The Generalized Risk-Adjusted Cost-Effectiveness (GRACE) Model for Measuring the Value of Gains in Health: An Exact Formulation	0
Ex Ante Costs Versus Ex Post Costs of the Large Municipal Waste Combustor Rule	0
Ethics and Benefit–Cost Analysis: Introduction to the Special Issue	0
Three Criteria for Evaluating Social Programs	0
The Value of Statistical Life: A Meta-Analysis of Meta-Analyses	0
Regulatory Reform: Results and Challenges	0
Regulators Should Value Nonhuman Animals	0
The Right Numeraire or the Just Weights? How to Make BCA Rational and Fair	0
All Cancers Are not Created Equal: How Do Survival Prospects Affect the Willingness to Pay to Avoid Cancer?	0
BCA volume 13 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
A Test of Hirschman’s Hiding Hand Principle in World Bank-Financed Hydropower Projects	0
Lessons from Applying Value of Statistical Life and Alternate Methods to Benefit–Cost Analysis to Inform Development Spending	0
Viscusi Circular A-4 Peer Review Comments and Guidance for Future Revisions	0
Time Savings vs. Access-Based Benefit Assessment of New York’s Second Avenue Subway	0
One Million Lives Saved Per Year: A Cost–Benefit Analysis of the Global Plan to End Tuberculosis, 2023–2030 and Beyond	0
Achieving Maternal and Neonatal Mortality Development Goals Effectively: A Cost-Benefit Analysis	0
Discounting in Natural Resource Damage Assessment	0
The Shadow Prices of Voluntary Caregiving: Using Well-Being Panel Data to Estimate the Cost of Informal Care	0
On the Design of a Regulatory System	0
Reorganization of Economists at the FCC: The Role of Decision Rights, Control Systems, and Culture	0
BCA volume 15 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Estimating Lost Dividends from Incomplete Energy Access Transitions	0
Redistributive Regulations and Deadweight Loss	0
Inequality and the Value of a Statistical Life	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
Policy Diffusion, Environmental Federalism, and Economic Efficiency – How Institutions Influence the Implementation of EU Legislation in Two Nordic Countries	0
Seven Recommendations for Pricing Greenhouse Gas Emissions	0
Differences by Race and Ethnicity in Title IX’s Effect on Women’s Health	0