2 papers
econ.EM2026
Utilitarian or Quantile-Welfare Evaluation of Social Welfare? With Application to Health Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Charles F. Manski, John Mullahy
This paper considers quantile-welfare evaluation of social welfare as an alternative to utilitarian evaluation. Manski (1988) originally proposed and studied maximization of quanti…
econ.EM2025
Prediction with Differential Covariate Classification: Illustrated by Covariate Classification in Medical Risk Assessment
Atheendar S. Venkataramani, Charles F. Manski, John Mullahy
A common practice in evidence-based decision-making uses estimates of conditional probabilities P(y|x) obtained from research studies to predict outcomes y on the basis of observed…