Sentences with phrase «larger societal costs»

According to an analysis of 2010 data by the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, the price tag was $ 669 million in direct hospital costs for just that year and $ 174 billion in larger societal costs, which includes disability, effects on employment, and other longer - term factors.

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The societal costs of a large, uneducated criminal underclass are huge.

This large uncertainty makes it difficult for a cautious policy maker to avoid either: (1) allowing warming to exceed the agreed target; or (2) cutting global emissions more than is required to satisfy the agreed target, and their associated societal costs.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, the higher percentage of dropouts from large schools are associated with serious, additional societal costs such as crime and lifetime earnings.

Including the larger SCAR valuation would make the economics even more favorable from the perspective of a social planner considering broad societal costs.

What I am unsure about is whether this will simply prove an opportunity for commercial and societal publishers to increase revenue (at the expense of investment in the research itself); whether large discrepancies in pricing by discipline and type of publisher will continue; and whether APCs will lead to price - sensitive competition for journal articles costs, disrupting what has has largely been a monopolistic pricing model for subscriptions and now for APC.

Of the ICERs in figure 1, 4340 (87 %) are located in the northeast quadrant, indicating that the most likely outcome is that ICBT generates larger improvements at additional net societal costs.