
Federal Standards for Benefit Cost Analyses of Social Programs
Many prevention researchers undertake benefit-cost analyses of a program, not because they seek to improve the intervention's efficiency, but because they want to be able to demonstrate the intervention's value to practitioners and policy makers. In such cases it is important that analysts consider the standards and principles guiding BCA's within government in order to ensure estimates are as useful. There are two documents that may be of use to those interested BCA for such