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Title	Author(s)	Post date
A Reliable Internal Rate of Return (working paper)	Zerbe	04/26/11
The Appropriate Discount Rate for Benefit-Cost Analysis (published paper)	Burgess, Zerbe	04/26/11
Behavioral Economics and Benefit-Cost Analysis (working paper)	Robinson, Hammitt	06/01/10
Principles and Standards for Benefit-Cost Analysis of Early Childhood Interventions (working paper)	Karoly	01/25/10
General Equilibrium Benefit Analyses for Social Programs (working paper)	Klaiber, Smith	01/25/10
Measuring the Costs and the Benefits of Energy Development (published paper)	Lesser	12/21/09
Ethical Benefit-Cost Analysis as Art and Science: Ten Rules for Benefit-Cost Analysis (working paper)	Zerbe	12/21/09
How Two Non-Market Valuation Techniques Can Improve Compliance with Environmental Justice Requirements: Three Case Studies Using Hedonic Property and Contingent Valuation Methods to Quantify the Distribution of Benefits by Ethnicity and Income (working paper)	Loomis, Gonzalez-Caban	12/21/09
Principles and Standards for the Benefit-Cost Analysis of Crime (working paper)	Lott	12/21/09
Importance of Incorporating Distributional Issues in Benefit-Cost Analysis (working paper)	Loomis	12/21/09

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