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**HOW MUCH DOES THAT INTERVENTION COST?**
I just moderated a @CEGA_UC panel with editors from four economics or development journals about how to make cost data more prevalent in studies and how to make it more publishable. https://twitter.com/anbrowndc/status/1318952370936696833 [thread]
I just moderated a @CEGA_UC panel with editors from four economics or development journals about how to make cost data more prevalent in studies and how to make it more publishable. https://twitter.com/anbrowndc/status/1318952370936696833 [thread]
In case you missed it, the video of the panel will soon be posted on the @cega_uc website. I’ll add it to this thread when that happens. In the meantime, I’ll share a few pieces on this topic. https://twitter.com/CEGA_UC/status/1318966508102406144
Not that many evaluations do cost analysis. In a recent review of impact evaluations, @AcostaAminaM and I found that only about a third of studies do any detailed costing of the interventions. https://www.cgdev.org/blog/what-have-we-learned-recent-years-education-research-africa
Why isn’t there more cost analysis in evaluations? I assembled some unsystematic thoughts on the topic. https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/why-don-t-economists-do-cost-analysis-their-impact-evaluations
Brown ( @CEGA_UC) and Tanner ( @WorldBank) give more systematic thoughts on why there isn’t more cost analysis in evaluations based on a survey of hundreds of policy makers and more than a dozen journal editors. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/32586
But remember that doing cost effectiveness analysis is not simple. @AnnaPopovas and I published a paper examining external validity issues in cost measures (and they're important!). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305750X15002016
Open-access working paper: https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/969291468340210399/cost-effectiveness-measurement-in-development-accounting-for-local-costs-and-noisy-impacts
Open-access working paper: https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/969291468340210399/cost-effectiveness-measurement-in-development-accounting-for-local-costs-and-noisy-impacts
Many researchers have done good work on this. If you want a primer, try Dhaliwal et al.'s "Comparative Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Inform Policy in Developing Countries: A General Framework with Applications for Education" https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/116111
The panelists gave good, specific advice on how to publish papers with cost analysis. I encourage you to check it out when it becomes available. [end of thread]
