1. Nineteen
Distributionally Weighted
Cost-Benefit Analysis

4. Figure An Excise Tax on a Luxury Good Source: Adapted from Arnold C. Harberger, “On the Use of Distributional Weights in Social Cost-Benefit Analysis,” Journal of Political Economy 86(2) 1978, S87–S120; Figure 1, p. S89.

5. Figure 19-2 Changes in Consumer Surplus for High- and Low-Income Consumers

10. TABLE 19-4 (continued) Sensitivity of MDRC’s Evaluations of Selected Welfare-to-Work Experiments to the Use of Distributional Weights (in 2006 dollars)