Objectives. School-based anti-tobacco education using the “social influences” model is
known to reduce smoking among youth by 5–56%. Program effectiveness, however …

▪ Abstract Cost-effectiveness analysis, an analytic tool that expresses as a ratio the cost of
obtaining an additional unit of health outcome, can help decision makers achieve more …

Adam Smith's psychological perspective in The Theory of Moral Sentiments is remarkably
similar to “dual-process” frameworks advanced by psychologists, neuroscientists, and more …

Many analytical approaches to setting environmental standards require some consideration
of costs and benefits. Even technologybased regulation, maligned by cost-benefit …

We gathered information on the cost‐effectiveness of life‐saving interventions in the United
States from publicly available economic analyses.“Life‐saving interventions” were defined …

Swee** into office on a promise to reform what he saw as a lumbering and wasteful
regulatory apparatus, President Reagan in 1981 tapped the Office of Management and …

In this concise, engaging, and provocative work, Richard Porter introduces readers to the
economic tools that can be applied to problems involved in handling a diverse range of …

The literature on the benefits and costs of regulation demonstrates that this issue can be
explored systematically using standard economic analysis. It also shows that regulation can …

In response to the increasing impact of regulation, several governments have introduced
economic analysis as a way of trying to improve regulatory policy. This paper provides a …

In the 1960s and 1970s, Congress enacted a vast body of legislation to protect the
environment and individual health and safety. Collectively, this legislation is known as “risk …