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Although benefit assessment principles are well established for defined populations, there has been very little attention to how one defines the scope of the pertinent population for the assessment. Whose social welfare matters and whose benefits should be included in the assessment? Should there be any linkage between the benefits and the political jurisdiction whose citizens are paying for the policy? For national regulatory policies, the norm has been to assess benefits to U.S. citizens. This article reviews the norms for the scope of benefit assessment base on executive orders and the laws governing risk and environmental regulations.

Author

• Viscusi, Kip
• Gayer, Ted

Keyword

• Climate Change
• Regulation
• Public Interest
• Public Policy
• Environment
• Working Paper
• Regulatory Studies

Date created

• 6/4/2014

Type of Work

• Working Paper

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Regulatory Studies Center

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/work/sn009z09x

License

• Attribution 3.0 United States

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