Don't Miss the Chance to Present at the 2024 Annual Conference!

The Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis is now accepting proposals for its 2024 Annual Conference to be held on March 18-19 in person at The George Washington University, Washington, DC, and April 4-5 virtually. Submissions must be received by October 31, 2023, to be guaranteed consideration by the Program Committee. Learn more>>

The Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis (SBCA) works to improve the theory and practice of benefit-cost analysis and support evidence-based policy decisions. SBCA's global membership includes scholars and practitioners from government, academia, nonprofits and private industry, representing a variety of disciplines, such as economics, law, engineering, public policy, decision science and natural science. SBCA addresses a wide range of policy areas: criminal justice, education, energy, environmental quality, homeland security, poverty, public health, transportation and many others. Society members work with a broad set of methods, including benefit-cost analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, risk-benefit analysis, applied welfare economic analysis and damage assessments.

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Tue Oct 17, 2023Benefit-Cost Analysis for U.S. Regulations

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Wed Oct 18, 2023Benefit-Cost Analysis for U.S. Regulations

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Thu Nov 9, 2023Association for Public Policy and Management (APPAM) 2023 Fall Research Conference

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Tue Nov 14, 2023Census Bureau Race, Ethnicity and Inequality Workshop

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Sat Nov 18, 2023SBCA Organized Sessions at SEA 2023 Annual Meeting

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Don't Miss the Chance to Present at the 2024 Annual Conference!

The Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis is now accepting proposals for its 2024 Annual Conference to be held on March 18-19 in person at The George Washington University, Washington, DC, and April 4-5 virtually. Submissions must be received by October 31, 2023, to be guaranteed consideration by the Program Committee.Learn more>>

Members in the News

John Graham and Kerry Krutilla recently co-authored a book published by Cambridge Press in their core elements series in public economics: “Benefit-Cost Analysis of Air Pollution, Energy, and Climate Regulations. The book is open access. The book compares and contrasts Regulatory Impact Assessment in the U.S. and Europe, and addresses five methodology issues: the estimation of costs, including engineering, partial equilibrium, and general equilibrium approaches; the estimation of benefits, with sections on the value of mortality risk reductions and pricing carbon emissions; discounting methods, and their relationship to carbon pricing; distributional analysis, including impacts on workers, producers, consumers, and beneficiaries; and the evaluation of less and more fundamental uncertainty. A perspective on the relevance and limitations of current research is also offered.

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The proposed revisions to Circular A-4 recently put forward by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs include guidance on applying what are referred to as "distributional weights." In a recent paper, Dan Acland and David Greenberg explicitly recommend that distributional weighting of the sort presented in the proposed revisions be adopted by federal agencies. The latest SBCA blog post clarifies their position, in the hope that criticisms of distributional weighting may be better understood and laid to rest. Read more>>

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