Can Risk Assessment Help Us Determine if Regulations Kill Jobs?
Quantitative risk assessment, currently used to evaluate environmental and health hazards, can also analyze regulations’ impact on jobs.
Analyzing Regulation’s Effect on Jobs
Lisa Robinson argues that recent high unemployment highlights the need to assess employment effects of regulation.
Improving Regulation Requires Closer Scrutiny of Benefits
Many regulations fail to demonstrate a need for agency action.
Internalizing Cost-Benefit Analysis
Agencies can improve both regulatory analysis and decision-making by establishing internal review capacity.
The Growing Application of Cost-Benefit Analysis to Financial Regulation
Cost-benefit analysis assumes an increasingly prominent role in financial rulemaking.
Cost and Benefit Changes During Federal Rulemakings
Data from recent rulemakings do not show that OIRA review systematically lowers estimated benefits and increases estimated costs.
Do Regulations Kill Jobs?
PPR holds Washington workshop showcasing latest research on employment impacts.
TSCA and the Proposed Chemical Safety Improvement Act
Despite limitations, proposed legislation would improve regulation of chemicals.
White House Review of Regulation: Myths and Realities
The Regulatory Review features the remarks of Cass R. Sunstein, keynote speaker at the Penn Program on Regulation’s annual regulation dinner at Penn Law.
Costs, Benefits, and the Non-Political Nature of OIRA Review
OIRA performs the role of information aggregator.
