Resources
Applications specific to health and nutrition
Health Economics Reference Cases
iDSi Reference Case on Economic Evaluation
Key reading: Wilkinson T, Sculpher MJ, Claxton K, et al. The International Decision Support Initiative Reference Case for Economic Evaluation: An Aid to Thought. Value Health. 2016;19(8):921-928.
Global Health Cost Consortium Reference Case for Estimating the Costs of Global Health Services and Interventions. Vassall A, Sweeney S, Kahn J, Gomez G, Bollinger L, and Marseille E. Seattle, WA: Global Health Cost Consortium, 2017.
Harvard School of Public Health Guidelines for Benefit-Cost Analysis in Global Health and Development. Robinson, L.A., Hammitt, J.K., Jamison, D.T. and Walker, D.G., 2019. Conducting Benefit-Cost Analysis in Low-and Middle-Income Countries: Introduction to the Special Issue. Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 10(S1), pp.1-14.
Guidance for public health, nutrition, and early childhood development
Moreland S, Shaylen F, Morris L. A Guide to the Fundamentals of Economic Evaluation in Public Health. USAID, Measure Evaluation, 2019.
Puett, C. Cost-Effectiveness Guidelines: An Introduction and Overview of Key Concepts for Cost-effectiveness Analysis within ACF. Paris: France: Action Contre le Faim, 2013.
Gustafsson-Wright, E, Boggild-Jones I, Gardiner S. The Standardized Early Childhood Development Costing Tool (SECT). 2017. Washington DC: The Brookings Institute, 2017.
References on thresholds for decision making
Remme M, Martinez-Alvarez M, Vassall A. Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds in Global Health: Taking a Multisectoral Perspective. Value Health. 2017;20(4):699-704.
Marseille E, Larson B, Kazi DS, Kahn JG, Rosen S. Thresholds for the cost-effectiveness of interventions: alternative approaches. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2015;93(2):118-124.
Landmark publications
Drummond MF, Sculpher MJ, Claxton K, Stoddard GL, Torrance GW. Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes. 4th ed. Oxford University Press, 2015.
Sanders GD, Neumann PJ, Basu A, et al. Recommendations for Conduct, Methodological Practices, and Reporting of Cost-effectiveness Analyses: Second Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine. JAMA. 2016;316(10):1093-1103.
Applications to the agricultural sector
World Bank's Economic Analysis of Agricultural Projects by J. Price Gittinger first published in 1972, with new editions through the 1980s.
Boardman AE, Greenberg D, Vining AR, Weimer DL. Cost-Benefits Analysis: Concepts and Practice. 4th ed. Cambridge University Press, 2017.