Overview of the stat-o-th-art of CBA in social policy

Investing in the Disadvantaged: Assessing the Benefits and Costs of Social Policies

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 219-248

  Vining, Aidan R ^a   Weimer, David L ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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