Robert J Brent

Fordham University

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Department of Economics

441 E Fordham Road

Bronx, NY 10458

United States

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1.

Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Evaluation of the Effects of Corruption on Public Projects

Chapter 15 in Handbook of Research on Cost-benefit Analysis, (ed.) Robert J. Brent, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009; ISBN: 9781847200693
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 22 Sep 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University
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Estimating the Monetary Benefits of Medicare Eligibility for Reducing the Symptoms of Dementia

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 07 Aug 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University
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Dementia, Medicare, Benefits, Cost-Benefit Analysis,Economics of the Elderly, Health Production

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The Value of a Year's General Education for Reducing the Symptoms of Dementia

Applied Economics, Volume 50, 2018 - Issue 25
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 17 Jul 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University
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Education; Dementia; Monetary Benefits; Cost-Benefit Analysis

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A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Female Primary Education as a Means of Reducing HIV/AIDS in Tanzania

Applied Economics, Vol. 41, No. 14, p. 1731-1743, 2009
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 Aug 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University
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Cost-Benefit Analysis; Female Primary Education; Preventing HIV/AIDS; Tanzania

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A Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Condom Social Marketing Program in Tanzania

Applied Economics, Vol. 41, No. 4, 2009
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 30 Aug 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University
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Cost-Benefit Analysis; Willingness-to-Pay; Condom Social Marketing; Preventing HIV/AIDS; Tanzani

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Female Education, HIV/AIDS and the Education Vaccine in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Condom Piece of the Puzzle

Journal of African Development Fall 2014 | Volume 16 #2
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 08 Aug 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University
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Female Education, HIV/AIDS, Condoms, Sub-Saharan Africa,Tanzania

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A Cross-Section Framework for Estimating Jointly the Extent of Shifting of Sales and Company Income Taxes, with an Application to Kenya

Public Finance = Finances Publiques, 1979, Vol. 34, Issue 1, 51-68
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 07 Aug 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University
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Using a Happiness Index to Measure the Benefits for a Cost Benefit Analysis of Antiretrovirals for Older Adults with HIV in New York City

(2014) Clin Res HIV/AIDS 1(2): 1009.
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 20 Sep 2018
Robert J Brent, Mark Brennan and Stephen E. Karpiak
Fordham University, AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA) - New York Office and New York University (NYU) - College of Nursing
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Cost-Benefit Analysis, Antiretrovirals, Price of a QALY, Older Adults, Depression

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A New Approach to Valuing a Life

Journal of Public Economics, Volume 44, Issue 2, March 1991, Pages 165-171
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 07 Aug 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University
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An Estimate of the Benefits of Not Having HIV/AIDS in a Prison Setting

(2015) Clin Res HIV/AIDS 2(2): 1022
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 21 Sep 2018
Robert J Brent and Tina Maschi
Fordham University and Fordham University - Graduate School of Social Service
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Cost-Benefit Analysis, User Prices, and State Expenditures in India

Public Finance = Finances publiques, 1995, Vol. 50, Issue 3, 327-41
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 25 Sep 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University
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Profits, Poverty, and Health Care: An Examination of the Ethical Base of Economics

Fordham Urban Law Journal, Volume 24, Issue 4, 1996
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 21 Sep 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University
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An Implicit Price of a DALY for Use in a Cost-Benefit Analysis of ARVs

Applied Economics, Vol. 43, No. 11, 1413-1421, 2011
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 29 Aug 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University
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Implicit Price of a DALY; Cost-Benefit Analysis; ARVs

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Shadow Prices for a Physician's Services

Applied Economics, Volume 26, 1994 - Issue 7
Posted: 07 Nov 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University

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The Consumption Rate of Interest and the Numbers Effect    

Public Finance / Finances Publiques, Vol. 47(3), 1992, pp. 367-377
Posted: 07 Nov 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University

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The Tax Implications of Cost Shifting in Cost-Benefit Analysis in Mental Health

Applied Economics, Volume 35, 2003 - Issue 8
Posted: 07 Nov 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University

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The Shadow Wage Rate and the Numbers Effect

Public Finance / Finances Publiques, No. 2/1991 Vol.  XXXXVI/XXXXVIiéme Année 
Posted: 07 Nov 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University

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On the Estimation Technique to Reveal Government Distributional Weights

Applied Economics, Volume 23, 1991 - Issue 5  
Posted: 07 Nov 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University

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Lagged Reactions in Short-Run Estimates of Tax Shifting of Company Income and Sales Taxes in Kenya

Journal of Development Economics, Volume 20, Issue 1, January–February 1986, Pages 15-32
Posted: 29 Oct 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University

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The Role of Public and Private Transfers in the Cost-Benefit Analysis of Mental Health Programs

Health Economics, Volume 13, Issue 11, November 2004, Pages 1125-1136
Posted: 29 Oct 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University

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The Role of User Fees in the Cost-Benefit Analysis of Privatization with an Application to Inpatient Psychiatric Services in the Us

Applied Economics, 2008, 40, 1981–1989
Posted: 29 Oct 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University

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Use of Distributional Weights in Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Survey of Schools

Public Finance Review, Vol 12, Issue 2, 1984
Posted: 29 Oct 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University

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Imputing Weights Behind Past Railway Closure Decisions within a Cost–Benefit Framework

Applied Economics, Volume 11, 1979 - Issue 2
Posted: 29 Oct 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University

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The Farmers Home Administration's Social Discount Rate

Applied Economics, Volume 21, 1989 - Issue 9
Posted: 29 Oct 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University

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Estimating the Effectiveness and Benefits of Alcohol Treatment Programmes for Use in Economic Evaluations

Applied Economics, Volume 30, 1998 - Issue 2
Posted: 29 Oct 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University

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Does Female Education Prevent the Spread of Hiv-Aids in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Applied Economics, Volume 38, 2006 - Issue 5
Posted: 08 Oct 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University

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Distinguishing between Money Income and Utility Income in Cost-Benefit Analysis

Public Finance Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 2, April 1980 131-152
Posted: 08 Oct 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University

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Country Estimates of Social Discount Rates Based on Changes in Life Expectancies

KYKLOS, Volume 46, Issue 3, August 1993, Pages 399-409
Posted: 08 Oct 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University

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Economic Evaluations of HIV Prevention in Rich Countries and the Need to Focus on the Aging of the Hiv-Positive Population

Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS: May 2010 - Volume 5 - Issue 3 - p 255–260
Posted: 25 Sep 2018
Robert J Brent, Mark Brennan and Stephen E. Karpiak
Fordham University, AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA) - New York Office and New York University (NYU) - College of Nursing

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economic evaluations, elderly adults, HIV, prevention

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An Axiomatic Basis for the Three Objective Social Welfare Function within a Poverty Context

Economics Letters, Volume 20, Issue 1, 1986, Pages 89-94
Posted: 25 Sep 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University

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A Three Objective Social Welfare Function for Cost-Benefit Analysis

Applied Economics, Volume 16, 1984 - Issue 3
Posted: 22 Sep 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University

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A Social Cost-Benefit Criterion for Evaluating Voluntary Counseling and Testing with an Application to Tanzania

Health Econ. 2010 Feb;19(2):154-72. doi: 10.1002/hec.1457.
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 21 Sep 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University
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cost–benefit analysis, social welfare and externalities, Voluntary Counseling and Testing, HIV policy, Tanzania

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A Cost-Benefit Framework for Evaluating Conditional Cash-Transfer Programs

Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis 2013; 4(2): 159–180
Posted: 21 Sep 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University

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CBA Conditional Cash Transfers; Distributional Weights; Kenya; OVC

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A Simple Method for Converting a Cost-Effectiveness Analysis into a Cost-Benefit Analysis with an Application to State Mental Health Expenditures

Public Finance Review, Vol 30, Issue 2, 2002; DOI/10.1177/109114210203000204
Posted: 21 Sep 2018
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Fordham University

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Using the Travel Cost Method to Value Visits and Stigma in Connection with ARV Adherence in Uganda

Applied Economics, 49:5, 477-497, 2017; DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2016.1200185
Posted: 21 Sep 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University

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Travel Cost Method; Antiretrovirals for HIV; Stigma

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Valuing the Prevention of Elder Abuse

Applied Economics, Volume 47, 2015 - Issue 58
Posted: 21 Sep 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University

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elder abuse, valuation of offenses, cost-benefit analysis

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The Value of Reducing HIV Stigma

Social Science & Medicine 151 (2016) 233-240
Posted: 21 Sep 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University

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HIV-Stigma, Valuing Benefits, Older People

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The Effects of HIV Medications on the Quality of Life of Older Adults in New York City

Health Econ. 21: 967–976 (2012); DOI: 10.1002/hec.1774
Posted: 21 Sep 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University

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Quality of Life; Antiretroviral Medications; Elderly With HIV/AIDS; Depression

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The Cost-Benefit Analysis of Government Loans

Public Finance Review, Vol 19, Issue 1, page(s): 43-66, January 1991; DOI/10.1177/109114219101900103
Posted: 21 Sep 2018
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Fordham University

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The Economic Value of Reducing the Stigma of HIV/AIDS

Expert Rev. Pharmacoecon. Outcomes Res. 13(5), 561–563 (2013); DOI/10.1586/14737167.2013.832207
Posted: 21 Sep 2018
Robert J Brent
Fordham University

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