2019 Conference Agenda and Abstracts

                                                 2019 Conference & Meeting Keynote Speaker Cass Sunstein

                                                                 2019 Conference & Meeting Membership Meeting

Please find below the preliminary agenda and abstracts for the 2019 Annual Conference and Meeting: Thinking About the Width and Breadth of Benefit-Cost Analysis.

Detailed program schedule:   2019 Final Program

Full set of Abstracts:   2019 Conference Abstracts

Wednesday, March 13

• 8:00 – 9:00          Registration for Full-day and Morning Workshops
• 8:30 – 12:30        Professional Development Workshops Workshop
  • Workshop 3: Using Meta-Analysis to Support Benefit-Cost Analysis and Evidence-Based Policymaking  
  • Workshop 2: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness? Techniques for Promoting the Use of Evidence and BCA Results to Policymakers
  • Workshop 5: Introduction to Regulatory Impact Assessment
• 12:30 – 1:30       Lunch 
• 1:00 – 1:30         Registration for Afternoon Workshop
• 1:30 – 5:00         Professional Development Workshops
  • Workshop 4: Deregulatory Benefit-Cost Analysis
• 5:00 – 6:30         Opening Reception (for all registered workshop and conference participants (sponsored by ExxonMobil) 

Thursday, March 14

• 8:00 – 9:00         Registration & Breakfast 
• 9:00 – 10:30       Session 1
  • Finkel 1.E
  • Getzner 1.F
  • Quinet 1.G
• 10:30 – 10:45     Break 
• 10:45 – 12:15     Session 2
  • Brennan 2.F
  • Hansen 2.F
  • Qingran 2.F
  • Gaudy 2.G
• 12:15 – 2:00       Luncheon and Annual Meeting of the SBCA Membership (sponsored by American Petroleum Institute)
• 2:00 – 3:30         Session 3
  • Scheffler 3.D
• 3:30 – 3:45         Break
• 3:45 – 5:15         Session 4
  •  Dou 4.D
  • Bromberg 4.F
  • Estrin 4.G
• 5:30 – 6:30         Networking Reception 

Friday, March 15

• 8:00 – 9:00          Registration  & Breakfast 
• 9:00 – 10:30        Session 5
  • Cropper 5.A
  • Neumann Amanya Strzepek 5.A
  • Robinson 5.A
  • Poudel 5.F       
• 10:30 – 10:45      Break 
• 10:45 – 12:15      Session 6
  • Robinson 6.A
  • Besedin 6.F
• 12:15 – 2:00        Luncheon and Keynote Address - Cass Sunstein (sponsored by American Chemcial Council)
• 2:00 – 3:30          Session 7
  • Ritchot 7.A
  • Kearsley 7.E
• 3:30 – 3:45          Break  
• 3:45 – 5:00          Closing Plenary - Dean Jamison
• 5:00 – 6:30          Closing Reception (sponsored by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)