Workshops

SBCA hosts several online professional development workshops each year, led by distinguished experts. Topics range from basic skills to advanced methodological issues and specific policy applications.

  

 

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2024 Professional Development Workshops

All times are U.S. Eastern.
All workshops are online via Zoom and will be recorded.
Registrants will have access to the recordings for one (1) year.

November 19 & 21, 2024
11:00 am - 2:00 pm ET 

Assessing Distribution and Equity

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Upcoming 2025 Workshops

Additional details coming soon!

January 2025 
Online via Zoom

Benefit-Cost Analysis for Beginners

March 12, 2025 (9:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.)
GWU Student Center, Washington, DC (in conjunction with the SBCA 2025 Annual Conference)

Benefit-Cost Analysis for U.S. Regulations (co‐sponsored by the Society for Risk Analysis)

Benefit-cost analysis is used around the world to assess regulatory impacts. This workshop introduces the use of benefit-cost analysis for regulatory impact analyses (RIAs) in the U.S. Federal government. The topics include identifying the market failure or other social purpose for the statement of need, establishing the correct baseline, choosing the policy options, estimating benefits and costs, and identifying transfers. The focus is on analyses of health and safety regulations issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), with further examples from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The concepts and practices covered are equally applicable to analyses conducted in other policy areas and in other countries or at a sub-national level.

The workshop will be structured as an overarching presentation with examples from past RIAs used as practical cases to be discussed by the participants. This workshop is intended for both economists and other practitioners who have a working knowledge of benefit-cost and risk analysis and the general concept of measuring welfare effects. This working knowledge will then be applied to the RIA context. The presenters are seasoned practitioners with substantial experience in conducting these analyses for federal regulatory actions. 

May 2025

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SBCA 2024 Professional Development Committee: Lisa A. Robinson (Chair), Maddalena Ferranna (Co-Chair), Charles Griffiths, Aaron Kearsley, Jason Price, I-Ling Elaine Shen, David Weimer, John Whitehead, and Brad Wong.

We thank our 2024 workshop organizers and instructors for their substantial volunteer contributions to the Society and to the field: Glenn C. Blomquist, University of Kentucky; David L. Weimer, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Charles Griffiths, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Tamma Carleton, University of California, Santa Barbara; Maureen Cropper, University of Maryland; Elizabeth Kopits, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Al McGartland, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Ishan Nath, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; Bryan Parthum, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Brian Prest, Resources for the Future; Lisa Rennels, Energy and Resources Group; Kevin Rennert, Resources for the Future; Marcus Sarofim, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; David Smith, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Mark Freeman, University of York; Moritz Drupp, University of Hamburg; Ben Groom, University of Exeter; Peter Howard, Institute for Policy Integrity, New York University School of Law; Deborah Lucas, MIT; Vic Adamowicz, University of Alberta; Cathy Kling, Cornell University; Nick Kuminoff, Arizona State University; Dan Phaneuf, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jennifer Baxter, IEc, Elizabeth Ashley, Office of Management and Budget; Dale Whittington, University of North Carolina; Rob Moore, Scioto Analysis; Robin Dillon-Merrill, Georgetown University; Michael Hartnett, Scioto Analysis; Lisa A. Robinson, Harvard University; Dan Acland, University of California, Berkeley; Matt Adler, Duke University; Maddalena Ferranna, University of Southern California; James K. Hammitt, Harvard University; Jim Neumann, IEc.