JEL classification

Journal of Economic Literature Classification (10799)

H - Public Economics (1357)

H4 - Publicly Provided Goods (167)

H43 - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate (25) Year LSE creators Item Type Departments File available

2026

Athanasakis, Kostas, Loupas, Marios Athanasios, Kyriopoulos, Ilias (2026). A discount rate for economic evaluations for Health Technology Assessment in Greece. Health Policy and Technology, 15(3). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2026.101169

2025

Campbell, John Y., Martin, Ian W. R. (2025). Sustainability in a risky world. American Economic Review: Insights, 7(2), 196 - 212. https://doi.org/10.1257/aeri.20240061 picture_as_pdf

Drupp, Moritz A., Turk, Zachary M., Groom, Ben, Heckenhahn, Jonas (2025). Global evidence on the income elasticity of willingness to pay, relative price changes and public natural capital values. Environmental and Resource Economics, 88(12), 3765 - 3804. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-025-01042-5 picture_as_pdf

Spackman, Michael (2025). Social discounting and the cost of public funds: problems with current global practice. (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Papers 419). Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf

2021

Aldy, Joseph E., Atkinson, Giles, Kotchen, Matthew J. (2021). Environmental benefit-cost analysis: a comparative analysis between the United States and the United Kingdom. Annual Review of Resource Economics, 13(1), 267-288. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-resource-040821-045913 picture_as_pdf

Calel, Raphael, Colmer, Jonathan, Dechezlepretre, Antoine, Glachant, Matthieu (2021). Do carbon offsets offset carbon? (CEP Discussion Papers 1808). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf

Campbell, John, Martin, Ian (2021). Sustainability in a risky world. (Financial Markets Group Discussion Papers 830). Financial Markets Group, The London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf

Venmans, Frank, Groom, Ben (2021). Social discounting, inequality aversion, and the environment. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 109, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2021.102479 picture_as_pdf

2019

Dietz, Simon, Venmans, Frank (2019). The endowment effect, discounting and the environment. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 97, 67-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2019.01.010 picture_as_pdf

2018

Atkinson, Giles, Groom, Ben, Hanley, Nicholas, Mourato, Susana (2018). Environmental valuation and benefit-cost analysis in U.K. policy. Journal of Benefit Cost Analysis, https://doi.org/10.1017/bca.2018.6

Drupp, Moritz A., Freeman, Mark C., Groom, Ben, Nesje, Frikk (2018). Discounting disentangled. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 10(4), 109-134. https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20160240

2016

Dietz, Simon, Matei, Nicoleta Anca (2016). Spaces for agreement: a theory of time-stochastic dominance and an application to climate change. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 3(1), 85 - 130. https://doi.org/10.1086/683684

Drupp, Moritz A. (2016). Limits to substitution between ecosystem services and manufactured goods and implications for social discounting. Environmental and Resource Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-016-0068-5

Freeman, Mark C., Groom, Ben (2016). How certain are we about the certainty-equivalent longterm social discount rate? Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 79, 152-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2016.06.004

2014

Cropper, Maureen L., Freeman, Mark C., Groom, Ben, Pizer, William A. (2014). Declining discount rates. American Economic Review, 104(5), 538-543. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.104.5.538

Robson, Arthur J., Szentes, Balázs (2014). A biological theory of social discounting. American Economic Review, 104(11), 3481-3497. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.104.11.3481

2013

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. (2013). If we build it, will they pay? Predicting property price effects of transport innovations. Environment and Planning A, 45(8), 1977-1994. https://doi.org/10.1068/a45429

Boone, Peter, Fazzio, Ila, Jandhyala, Kameshwari, Jayanty, Chitra, Jayanty, Gangadhar, Johnson, Simon, Ramachandrin, Vimala, Silva, Filipa, Zhan, Zhaoguo (2013). The surprisingly dire situation of children's education in rural west Africa: results from the CREO study in Guinea-Bissau. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1201). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.

Dietz, Simon, Hepburn, Cameron (2013). Benefit-cost analysis of non-marginal climate and energy projects. Energy Economics, 40, 61-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2013.05.023

Kanavos, Panos, Angelis, Aris (2013). Multiple criteria decision analysis for valuebased assessment of new medical technologies:a conceptual framework. (LSE Health working papers 33). LSE Health.

2010

Dietz, Simon, Hepburn, Cameron (2010). On non-marginal cost-benefit analysis. (Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment 18). Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

2007

Vandenberghe, Vincent (2007). Family income and tertiary education attendance across the EU: an empirical assessment using sibling data. (CASEpapers 123). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion.

2006

Dietz, Simon (2006-12-15 - 2006-12-19) On discounting non-marginal policy decisions and cost-benefit analysis of climate-change policy [Paper]. ISEE 2006: Ninth biennial conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics, Delhi, India, IND.

Dietz, Simon, Bowen, Alex, Hepburn, Cameron, Hope, Chris, Ranger, Nicola, Stern, Nicholas (2006). On discounting non-marginal policy decisions and cost-benefit analysis of climate-change policy. (SSRN Research Paper 295). Social Science Research Network.

1998

Dasgupta, Partha, Maler, Karl-Goran (1998). Decentralization schemes, cost-benefit-analysis, and net national product as a measure of social well-being. (DEDPS 12). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.