Journal Awards

• Best Article Award
• JBCA Award
• Best Symposium Published
• Arnold Harberger Prize for Retrospective Analysis

Best Article Award

The Best Article Award was started in 2017 and is awarded to those who the annual committee deems to have written the best articles published in the Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis in the prior year.

Award Recipients

2024:

• Best Original Article: Discounting in Natural Resource Damage Assessment by Eric Horsch, Daniel Phaneuf, Chris Giguere, Jason Murray, Cameron Duff, and Cole Kroninger
  

2023:

• Best Original Article: The Benefits and Costs of a Child Allowance by Irwin Garfinkel, Laurel Sariscsan, Elizabeth Ananat, Sophie Collyer, Robert P. Hartley, Buyi Wang, and Christopher Wimer

2022:

• Best Original Article: Poverty, Irrationality, and the Value of Cash Transfers by Daniel Acland
• Best Applied Article: Open Access in Scientific Information: Sustainability Model and Business Plan for the Infrastructure and Organization of OpenAIRE by Phoebe Koundouri, Nikos Chatzistamoulou, Osiel González Dávila, Amerissa Giannouli, Nikolaos Kourogenis, Anastasios Xepapadeas, and Petros Xepapadeas

2021:

• Best Original Article: "Monetizing Bowser: A Contingent Valuation of the Statistical Value of Dog Life" by Deven Carlson, Simon Haeder, Hank Jenkins-Smith, Joseph Ripberger, Carol Silva, and David Weimer
• Best Applied Article: "The Benefits and Costs of Using Social Distancing to Flatten the Curve for COVID-19" by Linda Thunström, Stephen C. Newbold, David Finnoff, Madison Ashworth, and Jason F. Shogren

2020:

• "Applying Benefit-Cost Analysis to Air Pollution Control in the Indian Power Sector," by Maureen Cropper, Sarath, Guttikunda, Puja Jawahar, Zachary Lazri, Kabir Malik, Xiao-Peng Song, and Xinlu Yao
• Estimates of Law Enforcement Costs by Crime Type for Benefit-Cost Analyses" by Priscilla Evelyne Hunt, Jessica Saunders, and Beau Kilmer

2019:

• “Welfare Analysis: Bridging the Partial and General Equilibrium Divide for Policy Analysis” by Scott Farrow and Adam Rose
• “Best Estimate Selection Bias in the Value of a Statistical Life” by W. Kip Viscusi

2018:

• “On the Distributional Implications of Safe Drinking Water Standards” by Dennis C. Cory and Lester D. Taylor

2017:

• "Contingent Valuation and the Poicymaking Process: An Application to Used Nuclear Fuel in the United States" by Deven Carlson, Joseph Ripberger, Hank Jenkins-Smith, Carol Silva, Kuhika Gupta, Robert Berrens, and Benjamin Jones
• "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Unified Approach to Behavioral Welfare Economics" by B. Douglas Bernheim
• "Rational Benefit Assessment for an Irrational World: Toward a Behavioral Transfer Test" by W. Kip Viscusi and Ted Gayer

JBCA Award

The JBCA Award is given to those who have contributed significantly to the growth and success of the Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis. 

Award Recipients

2018: R. Scott Farrow, Professor, Economics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

2016: Gillian Greenough, Senior Editor, Cambridge University Press

2015: David Weimer, member of the JBCA Editorial Board

2014: Mary Kokoski, Managing Editor of the JBCA

Best Symposium Published

Award Recipients

2019: Benefit-Cost Analysis in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Methods and Case Studies, Lisa Robinson, Guest Editor, Volume 10, Issue S1, Spring 2019

Arnold Harberger Prize for Retrospective Analysis

The 2013 Arnold Harberger Prize for Retrospective Analysis honored Professor Harberger’s legacy of benefit-cost work with high standards for relevance and impact. The award and an honorarium of $2,100 for the best retrospective paper published in the JBCA went to David Greenberg, Victoria Deitch, and Gayle Hamilton for their synthesis of welfare-to-work studies (JBCA, 1:1) with analysis that was clear, relevant, and useful for policy guidance. Honorable mention was awarded to Chris Rohlfs (JBCA, 3:3) for his elegant study of the benefits and costs of the military draft.

Award Recipients

2013: "A Synthesis of Random Assignment Benefit-Cost Studies of Welfare-to-Work Programs" by David H. Greenberg, Victoria Deitch and Gayle Hamilton