Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis

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
https://buff.ly/b2lwnQv

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

12/15/2025

Meet our keynote speaker: Amitabh Chandra

2026 Annual Conference
March 12-13, 2026 | Washington, DC
https://buff.ly/9UA9LGZ

Professor Chandra is the Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy and Director of Health Policy Research at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the Henry and Allison McCance Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where he is the Faculty Chair of the joint MS/MBA program in the life-sciences, the Faculty Chair of the executive education program in the life-sciences, the chair of the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab committee, and a board member for the Blavatnik Fellows program.

Professor Chandra's research focuses on innovation, pricing, and capital allocation in the biopharmaceutical industry, value in health care, medical malpractice, racial disparities in healthcare, and discovering new methods for treating Alzheimer's.

His research has been supported by the National Institute Of Aging, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Science.

Chandra serves on the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Health Advisors and has testified to the United States Senate and the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

He has served as Massachusetts’ Special Commissioner on Provider Price Reform, and has advised federal and state governments on health care reform.

Professor Chandra is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Social Insurance, the first-prize recipient of the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research’s Dissertation Award, the National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation Health Care Research Award, the Kenneth Arrow Award for best paper in health economics, the Eugene Garfield Award for the impact of medical research, and the American Society of Health Economists (ASHE) medal, which is given to an economist age 40 or under who has made the most significant contributions to the field of health economics.

You can find him on the web at https://buff.ly/OJW7C8K

12/10/2025

Meet our presenters: Christian Vossler

Nonmarket Valuation | SBCA April Professional Workshop
April 16-17, 2026 | Online via Zoom
https://buff.ly/8xwWJdx

Christian Vossler is the J. Fred Holly Chair of Excellence in the Department of Economics, Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee.

He is the director of the Master's program in Economics, and the director of the UT Experimental Economics Laboratory.

He is a fellow of The Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs, and a fellow of The Teton Group.

He currently serves as a co-editor for the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (JAERE) and Environmental & Resource Economics (ERE), and is an officer of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

You can find him online at https://buff.ly/4fse7qT

12/08/2025

Meet our presenters: Daniel Phaneuf

Nonmarket Valuation | SBCA April Professional Workshop
April 16-17, 2026 | Online via Zoom
https://buff.ly/BOCCPOt

Professor Phaneuf is an environmental and resource economist whose research is focused on the U.S.

He is especially interested in understanding the value of the environment, as measured through decisions that interaction with the environment, such as location and spending choices.

Much of his current work focuses on understanding the economic costs of water pollution in the United States.

You can find him online at https://buff.ly/pAuhSVa