Call for Abstracts: SBCA 2026 Annual ConferenceSubmit your proposals now for the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis Annual Conference, March 12–13, 2026, at The George Washington University Student Center in Washington, DC. The deadline for guaranteed consideration is Oct. 15, 2025. The SBCA Annual Conference convenes leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to advance the theory and practice of benefit-cost analysis. We invite submissions spanning a wide range of policy areas—health, environment, transportation, energy, education, finance, international development, public safety, and more—as well as crosscutting work on methods, distribution, and equity. Proposals may showcase new research, innovative applications, or insights from practice that demonstrate how benefit-cost analysis informs better policy. See abstract submission details
The Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis (SBCA) works to improve the theory and practice of benefit-cost analysis and support evidence-based policy decisions. SBCA's global membership includes scholars and practitioners from government, academia, nonprofits and private industry, representing a variety of disciplines, such as economics, law, engineering, public policy, decision science and natural science. SBCA addresses a wide range of policy areas: criminal justice, education, energy, environmental quality, homeland security, poverty, public health, transportation and many others. Society members work with a broad set of methods, including benefit-cost analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, risk-benefit analysis, applied welfare economic analysis and damage assessments. |