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The green book : appraisal and evaluation in central government

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The article was published on 2003-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1497 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Central government.

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Efficacy and economic assessment of conventional ventilatory support versus extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for severe adult respiratory failure (CESAR): a multicentre randomised controlled trial.

TL;DR: Transfer of adult patients with severe but potentially reversible respiratory failure, whose Murray score exceeds 3.0 or who have a pH of less than 7.20 on optimum conventional management, to a centre with an ECMO-based management protocol is recommended to significantly improve survival without severe disability.

Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the evidence on the economic impacts of climate change itself, and explore the economics of stabilizing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, concluding that the benefits of strong, early action on climate change considerably outweigh the costs.
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The Value of a Statistical Life: A Critical Review of Market Estimates Throughout the World

TL;DR: More recently, this article reviewed more than 60 studies of mortality risk premiums from ten countries and approximately 40 studies that present estimates of injury risk premiums, and concluded that an income elasticity of the value of a statistical life from about 0.5 to 0.6 was found.
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Endovascular aneurysm repair versus open repair in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm (EVAR trial 1): randomised controlled trial

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TL;DR: Compared with open repair, EVAR offers no advantage with respect to all-cause mortality and HRQL, is more expensive, and leads to a greater number of complications and reinterventions, however, it does result in a 3% better aneurysm-related survival.
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Costs of Autism Spectrum Disorders in the United Kingdom and the United States

TL;DR: The substantial direct and indirect economic effect of ASDs emphasizes the need to continue to search for effective interventions that make best use of scarce societal resources.
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Cost-Benefit Analysis: Concepts and Practice

TL;DR: Cost-benefit analysis as discussed by the authors provides accessible, comprehensive, authoritative, and practical treatments of the protocols for assessing the relative efficiency of public policies, including time discounting, dealing with contingent uncertainty using expected surpluses and option prices, taking account of parameter uncertainties using Monte Carlo simulation and other types of sensitivity analyses, revealed preference approaches, stated preference methods, and other related methods.
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The Proper Scope of Government: Theory and an Application to Prisons

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a model in which the provider can invest in improving the quality of service or reducing the cost of providing a service in order to improve the quality or reduce the cost.
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The Proper Scope of Government: Theory and an Application to Prisons

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a model in which the provider can invest in improving the quality of service or reducing cost, and applied it to understand the costs and benefits of prison privatization, and found that if contracts are incomplete, the private provider has a stronger incentive to engage in both quality improvement and cost reduction than a government employee.
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Kostenunterschätzung bei öffentlichen bauprojekten: fehler oder lüge? (Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie?)

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comparative study of actual and estimated costs in transportation infrastructure development, with a sample of 66 transportation projects, which approaches a large-sample study and takes a step toward valid statistical analysis.
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