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100	1		_aSalkever, David S. _920067
245	1	0	_aUsing Target Efficiency to Select Program Participants and Risk-Factor Models: _bAn Application to Child Mental Health Interventions for Preventing Future Crime / _cDavid S. Salkever, Stephen Johnston, Mustafa C. Karakus, Nicholas Ialongo, Eric Slade.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c2006.
300			_a1 online resource: _billustrations (black and white);
490	1		_aNBER working paper series _vno. w12377
500			_aJuly 2006.
520	3		_aStatistical risk factor models are often proposed for screening high-risk children to participate in early intervention programs. Recent contributions to the program evaluation literature demonstrate the need for incorporating judgments about relative importance of false positives versus false negatives in screening. This paper formalizes these judgments as commensurable economic costs and benefits and applies them to demonstrate an approach to participant selection motivated by the standard cost-benefit criterion of maximizing expected net benefits. Implications of this approach are explored using data from a mental health prevention trial. We illustrate the response of expected net benefits to the choice of a selection risk level, the sensitivity of the optimal selection risk level to per participant cost/benefit magnitudes, and the use of the target-efficiency approach for choosing among alternative risk-factor models. Several strategies that directly incorporate expected net benefit maximization as a criterion in the model estimation process are also examined.
530			_aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538			_aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588	0		_aPrint version record
690		7	_aI12 - Health Behavior _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aD61 - Allocative Efficiency • Cost–Benefit Analysis _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
700	1		_aJohnston, Stephen.
700	1		_aKarakus, Mustafa C.
700	1		_aIalongo, Nicholas.
700	1		_aSlade, Eric.
710	2		_aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830		0	_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w12377.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w12377
856			_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w12377
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