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Overview
What you will study
In the Benefit-Cost Analysis - Valuing Life and Health program offered by Harvard University , Lisa A. Robinson, a leading Harvard expert on benefit-cost analysis, will aid you in understanding the basic analytic framework and its application globally. You will learn about methods for valuing changes in health and longevity and the estimates recommended for use in high-, middle-, and low-income settings. She will be accompanied by experts who will illustrate the application of these methods in several policy areas. Through interactive presentations, case studies, extensive discussion, and optional office hours, you will develop a deeper understanding of these approaches and their application.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the fundamental concepts that underlie benefit-cost analysis and its advantages and limitations
- Identify the major components of a benefit-cost analysis and what each should include
- Increase familiarity with methods for valuing health and longevity, including revealed- and stated-preference studies and their application
- Learn about sources of guidance, including default values
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- Benefit-Cost Analysis Framework
- Conceptual foundation
- Individual preferences and willingness to pay
- Aggregate social welfare and distributional equity
- Implementation components and steps
- Valuing Longevity
- Value per statistical life (VSL) concept
- Market and nonmarket valuation methods
- Human capital
- Revealed and stated preferences
- Benefits transfer
- Guidance and recommended values
- Valuing Health
- Value per statistical case (VSC) concept
- Available valuation studies
- Proxy methods
- Averted costs (direct and indirect cost of illness)
- Monetized quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs)
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 5 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApplication deadline not specified.
Language
English
Delivered
Online
Disciplines
Environmental Economics & Policy Data Analytics View 13 other Short Courses in Environmental Economics & Policy in United StatesAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- Economists who conduct benefit-cost analyses
- Managers who commission and review benefit-cost analyses
- Researchers who contribute inputs to these analyses, such as estimates of deaths averted or technology effectiveness
- Stakeholders who participate in the policymaking process, such as interest group representatives and congressional staff
Tuition Fee
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International
600 USD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 600 USD for the full programme during 5 days. -
National
600 USD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 600 USD for the full programme during 5 days.
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