BCA for beginners

The Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis professional development workshop, “Benefit-Cost Analysis for Beginners” will be held on April 28, 2023. This promises to be a terrific workshop! The instructors are Glenn Blomquist (University of Kentucky), former editor of the Journal for Benefit-Cost Analysis, and David Weimer (University of Wisconsin), co-author of the leading text, Cost-Benefit Analysis. The workshop provides a foundation for those interested in better understanding the purpose and methods of this analysis as well as those who are curious about how it might be useful in their work. To learn more about this and other SBCA workshops, and to register, please visit https://www.benefitcostanalysis.org/workshops.

And here is the full series: 

The Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis is offering six professional development workshops this year, organized by leading experts. They include the following;

1. Benefit-Cost Analysis for Beginners (Glenn Blomquist and David Weimer)
2. Economics of Addiction (Elizabeth Botkins, Aaron Kearsley, Don Kenkel, David Watkins)
3. Estimating Program Effects (Craig Thornton, Anu Rangarajan, Randall Brown)
4. Valuing Nonmarket Benefits (Vic Adamowicz, Cathy Kling, Nic Kuminoff, Dan Phaneuf, Christian Vossler, John Whitehead)
5. Estimating Costs (Jason Price, Doug Meade, Brad Wong)
6. Benefit-Cost Analysis for U.S. Regulations (Aliya Sassi, Elizabeth Quin, Chris Dockins, Charles Griffiths, Aaron Kearsley)

More information is available here: https://www.benefitcostanalysis.org/workshops.