Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis

The Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis is an international organization dedicated to the advancement, encouragement, and exchange of ideas, research, and other activities related to:

• Benefit-Cost analysis (BCA),
• Cost-effectiveness analysis,
• Risk-benefit analysis,
• Applied welfare economic analysis, and
  
• Damage assessments.

This includes the intersection with other disciplines such as economics, law, engineering, policy, decision sciences and the natural sciences.

The Society has adopted the following primary goals:

1. Bring together individuals from diverse disciplines and from different countries and provide them opportunities to foster collaboration and exchange information, ideas and methodologies related to the practice and theory of benefit-cost analysis and applied welfare economics;
2. Encourage applications of benefit-cost and applied welfare analysis, and promote dialogue between practitioners and others who are interested in benefit-cost analysis;
3. Facilitate the development and dissemination of knowledge about benefit-cost and applied welfare analysis methods and their applications;
4. Develop and update standards of practice for benefit-cost and applied welfare analysis.
5. Foster methods to improve communication and consideration of benefit-cost methods and results.

Become a member of the society by submitting a membership form (99 KB PDF).

Find out more about our Board of Directors and members and the Benefit-Cost Analysis Center.