Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis

05/13/2026

Save the date for our 2027 Annual Conference - March 11-12 at The George Washington University.

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02/02/2026

🚨 Register for SBCA’s Professional Development Workshop🚨

Benefit-Cost Analysis for Beginners | Online via Zoom
February 18, 2026, 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. ET and 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET

HM Treasury has launched a formal review of the Green Book discount rate used in social cost-benefit analysis and is seeking input from the academic community. SBCA members and others working in benefit-cost analysis are invited to contribute via a short survey, open through Feb. 13.

01/31/2026

🚨 Rates increase tomorrow🚨

SBCA 2026 Annual Conference
March 12-13, 2026 | The George Washington University

👉 Don't delay, register today! https://buff.ly/cjUtIbn

01/26/2026

🚨 This is the last week for discounted registration rates for our 2026 annual conference 🚨

SBCA 2026 Annual Conference
March 12-13, 2026 | The George Washington University

After this Saturday (the 31st), rates increase, so:

👉 Register today: https://buff.ly/cjUtIbn

01/01/2026

Wishing you and yours a Happy New Year!

May your benefits be always greater than your costs!

12/29/2025

As we enter into the last few days of 2025, we would like to take a moment and thank our organizational affiliates for their support:

Environment and Climate Change
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Industrial Economics, Incorporated (IEc)
Mathematica: Progress Together
George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center
ERG
O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University
School of Social Science, Policy, and Evaluation, Claremont Graduate University

Thank you for your ongoing support!

12/24/2025

SBCA thanks the members of the 2026 Program Committee for their leadership in shaping next year’s conference program: Daniel Herrera (Chair), Daniel Acland; Vic Adamowicz; Anna Belova; Glenn Blomquist; Caroline Cecot; Elissa Gentry; Kristina Gogic; Kshama Harpankar; Marc Jeuland; Jamie Leonard; Arif Mamun; Marco Percoco; Juan Robalino; Lisa Robinson; Jason Schwartz; Craig Thornton; Sandya Venugopal; Shuge Yao; Wojciech Zawadzki; and Jiakun Zheng.

12/23/2025

📒 You may have heard, but it bears repeating: Registration now open for the SBCA 2026 Annual Conference 📒

Registration is now open for the SBCA 2026 Annual Conference, which will take place March 12–13 in Washington, D.C.

The meeting will bring together economists, analysts and policymakers to share research and practical applications that advance benefit-cost analysis and evidence-based policymaking.

This year’s program will feature keynote remarks by Amitabh Chandra of Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School, and Solomon Hsiang of Stanford University.

Additional program details, including session listings and talk titles, will be available in early February.

🚨 Presenters must register for the conference by Wednesday, December 31, 2025, to remain on the program. 🚨

Early-bird registration rates are available through Jan. 31.

Discounted rooms have been secured at the Washington Marriott Georgetown for conference attendees.

Learn more and register at https://buff.ly/oiMzCbC

12/19/2025

🚨 Recent Blog Post Alert 🚨

👏 Lisa Robinson discusses the "Ethics and Benefit-Cost Analysis" special issue of the Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis

👉 Read the blog at https://buff.ly/LqFcDEw

12/17/2025

Meet our keynote speaker: Solomon Hsiang

2026 Annual Conference
March 12-13, 2026 | Washington, DC
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Solomon Hsiang directs the Global Policy Laboratory at Stanford University, where his team integrates social science, natural science, and data science to better understand how we can effectively manage global resources.

Hsiang is currently a Professor of Global Environmental Policy at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, a co-founder and co-director at the Climate Impact Lab, co-founder of mosaiks.org, Research Associate at the NBER, and a National Geographic Explorer.

Hsiang is also currently co-editing the Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change and co-leads the Aerial History Project.

Previously, Hsiang was faculty at the University of California, Berkeley at the Goldman School of Public Policy (2013-24).

Hsiang was also Lead Author of the first Economics chapter in the Fifth National Climate Assessment (2023) and, from 2023-24, Hsiang served as the first Chief Environmental Economist at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he oversaw the inaugural year of the United States natural capital accounting program.

You can find him on the web at https://buff.ly/CzLxk9g