April 1, 2015
Thank you to all who participated! We had a record turnout of 56 registrations for four pre-conference professional development workshops and 280 registrations for the conference, a 40% increase over 2014. Participants traveled from 14 international countries, as well as 24 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, and represented academic, government and private organizations.
Presentations in 40 program sessions covered topics related to regulation, health policy, transportation project assessments, climate policy, retrospective benefit-cost analysis and more, and SBCA President W. Kip Viscusi gave a keynote address on the topic of "Pricing Lives for Government and Corporate Risk Decisions."
The article Challenges in Applying the Paradigm of Welfare Economics to Climate Change by Fran Sussman, Christopher P. Weaver, and Anne Grambsch, was highlighted in the March 2015 edition of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Air, Climate, and Energy Research Newsletter. The article was originally published in the December 2014 special issue of the Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis on climate change. Click 
We are delighted to announce that the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis has hired a new Executive Director, Erika Dowd. Erika joins the SBCA with a background in nonprofit management and public policy. She has a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and most recently worked as the Director of Development for ReSurge International, an international medical organization based in the Bay Area. Erika and her family have recently relocated to the Seattle area and she started work with the SBCA in late November. She is enjoying getting back into the policy world and looks forward to meeting our members at the conference in March. 
January 26, 2015