Nathaniel Hendren and Ben Sprung-Keyser. 2020. “A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 135 (3): 1209-1318.

Check the authors’ websites for the posted paper:
https://scholar.harvard.edu/hendren/home
https://bsprungkeyser.com/

Governments pursue numerous policies to improve social welfare, and many of these have been extensively studied. But how do we bridge the gap between individual policy evaluations and the broader question of where the government should invest its resources? In general, which public policies provide the biggest bang for the buck?


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