Distributionally Weighted Cost-Benefit Analysis

Sep 11, 2014

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Nineteen. Distributionally Weighted Cost-Benefit Analysis. Figure 19-1 An Excise Tax on a Luxury Good Source: Adapted from Arnold C. Harberger, “On the Use of Distributional Weights in Social Cost-Benefit Analysis,” Journal of Political Economy 86(2) 1978, S87–S120; Figure 1, p. S89.

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Distributionally Weighted Cost-Benefit Analysis

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Nineteen Distributionally Weighted Cost-Benefit Analysis

Figure 19-1An Excise Tax on a Luxury GoodSource: Adapted from Arnold C. Harberger, “On the Use of Distributional Weights inSocial Cost-Benefit Analysis,” Journal of Political Economy 86(2) 1978, S87–S120;Figure 1, p. S89.
Figure 19-2Changes in Consumer Surplus for High- and Low-Income Consumers

TABLE 19-4 (continued)Sensitivity of MDRC’s Evaluations of Selected Welfare-to-Work Experiments to the Use of Distributional Weights (in 2006 dollars)