The economics of evaluation in public programs [Research Reviews]
This research collection illustrates the wide range of methodologies and methods available for the evaluation of public programs. All these methods address the benefits of the programs and most compare the benefits to costs, but the types of benefits and their measures vary greatly across the studie...
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Edward Elgar Pub. Ltd
2011
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| Summary: | This research collection illustrates the wide range of methodologies and methods available for the evaluation of public programs. All these methods address the benefits of the programs and most compare the benefits to costs, but the types of benefits and their measures vary greatly across the studies and across the different types of public programs. The key articles presented here explore these different approaches and offer many examples of actual evaluations of public programs across different public policy settings. Professor Link and Professor Scott have provided an authoritative original introduction, which elucidates this diversity of approaches and settings and challenges scholars to contemplate an evaluation in terms of its theoretical foundation Tiebout, C. (1956), 'A pure theory of local public expenditures,' Journal of Political Economy, 64, 416-24. -- William J. Baumol (1968), 'On the Social Rate of Discount', American Economic Review, 58 (4), 788-802 -- Arthur Maass (1966), 'Benefit-Cost Analysis: Its Relevance to Public Investment Decisions', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 80 (2), May, 208-26 -- Amartya Sen (2000), 'The Discipline of Cost-Benefit Analysis', Journal of Legal Studies, XXIX (S2), June, 931-52 -- Luke Georghiou and David Roessner (2000), 'Evaluating Technology Programs: Tools and Methods', Research Policy, 29 (4-5), 657-78 -- Paul A. David, David Mowery and W. Edward Steinmueller (1992), 'Analysing the Economic Payoffs from Basic Research', Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2 (1), 73-90 -- F. Narin and Kimberly S. Hamilton (1996), 'Bibliometric Performance Measures', Scientometrics, 36 (3), 293-310 Ted R. Miller, Maury S. Galbraith and Bruce A. Lawrence (1998), 'Costs and Benefits of a Community Sobriety Checkpoint Program', Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 59 (4), July, 462-8 -- Michael T. French, Kathryn E. McCollister, Stanley Sacks, Karen McKendrick and George De Leon (2002), 'Benefit-Cost Analysis of a Modified Therapeutic Community for Mentally Ill Chemical Abusers', Evaluation and Program Planning, 25 (2), 137-48 -- Bert M. Coursey and Albert N. Link (1998), 'Evaluating Technology-based Public Institutions: The Case of Radiopharmaceutical Standards Research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology', Research Evaluation, 7 (3), December, 147-57 Recommended readings (Machine generated): Banzhaf, H.S. (2009), 'Objective or multi-objective? Two historically competing visions of benefit-cost analysis', Land Economics, 85, 3-23. -- Bewley, T.F. (1981), 'A critique of Tiebout's theory of local public expenditures', Econometrica, 49, 713-40. -- Brueckner, J.K. (1979a), 'Property values, local public expenditure and economic efficiency', Journal of Public Economics, 11, 223-45. -- Brueckner, J.K. (1979b), 'Equilibrium in a system of communities with local public goods', Economic Letters, 2, 387-93. -- Brueckner, J.K. (1982), 'A test for allocative efficiency in the local public sector', Journal of Public Economics, 19, 311-21. -- Brueckner, J.K. (1983), 'Property value maximization and public sector efficiency', Journal of Urban Economics, 14, 1-15. -- Link, A.N. and J.T. Scott (1998), Public Accountability: Evaluating Technology-Based Public Institutions, Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers. -- Barry Bozeman and Gordon Kingsley (1997), 'R&D Value Mapping: A New Approach to Case Study-Based Evaluation', Journal of Technology Transfer, 22 (2), 33-41 -- Zvi Griliches (1958), 'Research Costs and Social Returns: Hybrid Corn and Related Innovations', Journal of Political Economy, 66 (5), 419-31 -- David N. Bengston (1985), 'Economic Evaluation of Agricultural Research: An Assessment', Evaluation Review, 9 (3), June, 243-62 -- Irwin Feller and Jon P. Nelson (1999), 'The Microeconomics of Manufacturing Modernization Programs', Research Policy, 28, 807-18 -- Albert N. Link and John T. Scott (2006), 'An Economic Evaluation of the Baldrige National Quality Program', Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 15 (1), January, 83-100 -- Gideon Fishelson (1979), 'Measuring the Benefits from an Innovation: An Application to Energy', Energy Economics, 1 (1), January, 47-52 -- Joshua T. Cohen, Peter J. Neumann and Milton C. Weinstein (2008), 'Does Preventive Care Save Money? Health Economics and the Presidential Candidates', New England Journal of Medicine, 358 (7), February 14, 661-3 and Supplementary Appendix, 1-5 -- Steven C. Deller (1990), 'An Application of a Test for Allocative Efficiency in the Local Public Sector', Regional Science and Urban Economics, 20, 395-406 -- Stephanie Riegg Cellini, Fernando Ferreira and Jesse Rothstein (2010), 'The Value of School Facility Investments: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125 (1), February, 215-61 Link, A.N. and J.T. Scott (2011), Public Goods, Public Gains: Calculating the Social Benefits of Public R&D, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. -- Mansfield , E., J. Rapoport, A. Romeo, S. Wagner, and G. Beardsley (1977), 'Social and private rates of return from industrial innovations', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 91, 221-40. -- Scott, J.T. (2009), 'Cost-benefit analysis for global public-private partnerships: an evaluation of the desirability of intergovernmental organizations entering into public-private partnerships', Journal of Technology Transfer, 34, 525-59. -- Sonstelie, J.C. and P.R. Portney (1978), 'Profit maximizing communities and the theory of local public expenditures', Journal of Urban Economics, 5, 263-77. -- Sonstelie, J.C. and P.R. Portney (1980), 'Gross rents and market values: testing the implications of Tiebout's hypothesis', Journal of Urban Economics, 7, 102-18. -- Michael P. Gallaher and Brent R. Rowe (2006), 'The Costs and Benefits of Transferring Technology Infrastructures Underlying Complex Standards: The Case of IPv6', Journal of Technology Transfer, 31 (5), 519-44 -- Albert N. Link and John T. Scott (2005), 'Evaluating Public Sector R&D Programs: The Advanced Technology Program's Investment in Wavelength References for Optical Fiber Communications', Journal of Technology Transfer, 30 (1-2), 241-51 -- David P. Leech and John T. Scott (2008), 'Intelligent Machine Technology and Productivity Growth', Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 17 (7-8), October, 679-89 -- Albert N. Link and John T. Scott (2001), 'Public/Private Partnerships: Stimulating Competition in a Dynamic Market', International Journal of Industrial Organization, 19 (5), 763-94 -- Burton A. Weisbrod (1981), 'Benefit-Cost Analysis of a Controlled Experiment: Treating the Mentally Ill', Journal of Human Resources, XVI (4), 523-48 -- Michael Gallaher and K. Casey Delhotal (2005), 'Modeling the Impact of Technical Change on Emissions Abatement Investments in Developing Countries', Journal of Technology Transfer, 30 (1-2), 211-25 -- Robert William Fogel (1962), 'A Quantitative Approach to the Study of Railroads in American Economic Growth: A Report of Some Preliminary Findings', Journal of Economic History, XXII (2), June, 163-97 -- Ian W.H. Parry and Kenneth A. Small (2009), 'Should Urban Transit Subsidies be Reduced?', American Economic Review, 99 (3), 700-724 -- Gregory Tassey (2008), 'Modeling and Measuring the Economic Roles of Technology Infrastructure', Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 17 (7-8), 617-31 -- Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Kent Smetters and Jan Walliser (2007), 'Mitigating America's Demographic Dilemma by Pre-Funding Social Security', Journal of Monetary Economics, 54, 247-66 -- |
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| ISBN: | 9781784712990 |