Does this “benefit-cost” analysis include adaptation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unthreaded #5 « Climate Audit] Reference

Will all federal regulations soon pass a benefit-cost test?.    From Wordnik.com.  [May « 2004 « ResourceShelf] Reference

An aggregate measure for benefit-cost analysis by R.O. Zerbe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progressives & Thinking out of the Box] Reference

The benefit-cost ratio of group A was 3.9% higher than group B.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

D. Schulze (1983) The ethical foundations of benefit-cost analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophy of Technology] Reference

Using conservative assumptions, the following benefit-cost ratios were documented.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 10] Reference

These interventions are estimated to have high benefit-cost ratios and rates of return.    From Wordnik.com.  [Schools, Skills, and Synapses « Isegoria] Reference

For pesticides used exclusively in raw foods, the existing benefit-cost policy would stand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Markets and Majorities] Reference

It is the law ' s requirement for regulatory decision-making based on benefit-cost analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The EPA] Reference

The benefit-cost ratio is the ratio of the present value of benefits to the present value of costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [4. Case studies of small-scale semi-industrial neem processing in Kenya, Thailand, the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua] Reference

When I was an engineering student I was required to take at least one course in benefit-cost economics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whatever happened to environmental assessment? « Stephen Rees’s blog] Reference

And so the math doesn't add up, but also here just the benefit-cost analysis doesn't seem to make sense for me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Looming End To Tax Cuts Stirs Political Battle] Reference

Is there evidence that an effects size of X would be sufficient to make a policy of cost Y pass a benefit-cost test?.    From Wordnik.com.  [March 2010] Reference

Such estimates can usually be made independently by professional economists familiar with social benefit-cost analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8] Reference

The uncertainties are substantial and unavoidable, but they do not invalidate the use of discounting (or benefit-cost analysis).    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Stavins: Does economic analysis shortchange the future?] Reference

None of the laws the EPA administers, save one, explicitly calls for making regulatory decisions based on benefit-cost analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The EPA] Reference

Balaker is struck by the pie chart in the OMB report, which shows that most government programs fail to pass a benefit-cost test.    From Wordnik.com.  [Government Performance Effectiveness, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Unless you've had some experience with one federal agency that has long used "benefit-cost ratio" as a supposed guide to decision-making.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Shearer: The President's Panacea for Business Regs: The Cost-Benefit Ratio] Reference

The analysis showed that net income per unit input, net return to labour, and benefit-cost ratio were significantly higher for rice-fish culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

When the private and government views on appropriate technology may be expected to differ, the application of social benefit-cost analysis becomes mandatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8] Reference

To determine efficiency, analysts would employ the standard techniques of benefit-cost analysis to estimate the net social benefits of one or more program designs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Npr On Improving Program Design] Reference

Comparisons are made with respect to total investment costs, total annual costs and revenues and profitablity of the plants (annual profits and benefit-cost ratio).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Many countries use two indicators (the increment in economic benefit and marginal benefit-cost ratio of new technology) and set their critical values at 30% and 2, respectively.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

• Median benefit-cost ratios: 4.5 years (existing) and 1.1 years (new).    From Wordnik.com.  [ Cost-Benefit News] Reference

Of course, the province didn't do any benefit-cost analysis then or since.    From Wordnik.com.  [BC Bloggers] Reference

That's when our economists get their information, and they can decide what the benefit-cost ratios are.    From Wordnik.com.  [| INFORUM | Fargo, ND] Reference

A corps official said last month that the levee system was rated 1.0 in a preliminary benefit-cost analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [| INFORUM | Fargo, ND] Reference

In 2003, CCPA published a preliminary benefit-cost analysis of hosting the Games that I and others worked on.    From Wordnik.com.  [BC Bloggers] Reference

However, take into account the value of the park to the rest of the world, and the benefit-cost ratio shrinks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peak Oil News] Reference

This time the Congress deferred to the Secretary on those controversial decisions and the benefit-cost implications.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Citizen] Reference

The value of beach width is an important factor that enters the benefit-cost calculus of beach replenishment decisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News] Reference

For the 26 products reviewed in the report, the average payback is 3.1 years, with an average benefit-cost ratio of 4 to 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Gore on National Review Online] Reference

It is true that while (technically) renewables can be substituted for nuclear, the benefit-cost ratio is economically unacceptable.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

Formal benefit-cost analysis counts everyone’s gains and losses equally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Kleiman: Reforming Regulatory Benefit-Cost Analysis] Reference

Mixner isn’t going to be convinced, and the benefit-cost ratio of the attempt is low.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Baby, It’s Cold Outside] Reference

Some benefit-cost considerations of universal junior college education (University of California, Los Angeles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fixing the California Education Mess] Reference

“any reasoned benefit-cost analysis of climate change would call for action now to limit greenhouse gas emissions”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unthreaded #5 « Climate Audit] Reference

(increment in net benefit and marginal benefit-cost ratio) exceed the lowest limit (critical value) for spreading new technology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference