Economic evaluations are a form of applied welfare economics and aim to inform policy makers about the impacts on social welfare of particular policies. It is clear that in light of this aim, economic evaluations need to include all relevant societal costs and benefits related to a policy. Only then, a full welfare economic trade-off between costs and benefits can be made to facilitate welfare ...

In recent years the major developments in employee-benefit plans sponsored or underwritten by private organizations have been reported regularly in the Social Xecurity Bulletin. Thiis year the report is in two parts. Part I, which appeared in the April issue of the Bulletin, included 1959 data on coverage, contributions, and benefits under health, welfare, and retirement plans. In addition it d...

From time to time the Bulletin carries reports on operations in the five States that supplement the unemployment insurance benefit with a small allowance for dependents of beneficiaries . This article discusses sources from which data on the dependents of wage earners can be obtained and the use of such information in estimating the extent to which inclusion of dependents’ allowances aflects th...