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The Evans School of Public Affairs
2009 Society Conference & Meeting
The conference will include panel presentations on themes related to benefit-cost analysis. The annual meeting of the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis will be held on the second day of the conference.
Scheduled Panels (subject to change)
Day 1: Tuesday, October 20
Panel 1: Social Policy I
Chair: Lynn Karoly, RAND Corporation
* The Rate of Return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program by James J. Heckman, Seong Heyeok Moon, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter Savelyev and Adam Yavitz
* Deriving Benefit-Costs Analyses from Social Experiments: Challenges and Opportunities by Stephen H. Bell
* A Synthesis of Benefit-Cost Studies of Welfare-to-Work Programs by Victoria Deitch and David Greenberg
Panel 2: Public Health
Chair: James K. Hammitt, Harvard University
* Foodborne Disease Surveillance Cost Benefit Analysis by Robert L. Scharff
* A Hedonic Estimation of Benefits from Anti-Smoking Laws by Ramanan Laxminarayan, Shawn Magnuson, and Juha Siikamaki
Panel 3: Applications
Chair: Clive Belfield, Queens College
* The Challenges of Homeland Security Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Illustrative Example by Katie Foreman and Bryan Roberts
* Cost-Benefit Analysis of Real Estate Development Projects by Kenneth Acks, Editor and Publisher, Environmental Valuation and Cost-Benefit News
Day 2, Wednesday, October 21
Panel 4: Water Planning
Chair: Scott Farrow, University of Maryland – Baltimore County
* Treatment of General Equilibrium Effects in the Economic Appraisal of Large, Multipurpose Dams by Dale Whittington
* Benefit Cost Analysis and Water Resources Planning Guidelines: Policy and Practice by Larry Prather and Norm Starler
* Power Purchase Agreements for Risk and Rent Sharing in Himalayan Hydropower Developments by Glenn P. Jenkins
Panel 5: CBA and Governance
Chair: Daniel Cole, Indiana University
* A Practical Guide for the Intensity of Effort in Regulatory Benefit-Cost Analysis by Richard A Williams III and Richard B. Belzer
* CBA for the Environment–––A Handbook for Economists at the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency by Bengt Kriström, Göran Bostedt, and Scott Cole
* The Use of Benefit-Cost Analysis in Four States by Stuart Shapiro and Deborah Borie-Holtz
Panel 6: Social Policy II
Chair: Glenn P. Jenkins, Queens University and Eastern Mediterranean University
* Cost-Effectiveness in Early Childhood Development Programs: A Synthesis and Critique of Evidence in the First Decade of Life by Arthur Reynolds, Judy Temple, and Barry White
* Estimating the Social Value of Higher Education: Willingness to Pay for Community and Technical Colleges Glenn C. Blomquist, Paul A. Coomes, Christopher Jepsen, Brandon C. Koford, and Kenneth R. Troske
* Benefits and Costs of Slot Machine Gambling: A Forecast for Maryland by Scott Farrow
Panel 7: Climate Change
Chair: Richard B. Belzer, Regulatory Checkbook
* The “Social Cost of Carbon” Made Simple by Stephen Newbold, Charles Griffiths, Chris Moore, and Ann Wolverton
* Decision Making and Climate Change—What Role for Economics? (a.k.a. “What Would Ben Franklin Say?”) by Fran Sussman, Janet L. Gamble, and Anne Grambsch
* Conflicting Goals: Energy Security vs. GHG Reductions under the EISA Cellulosic Ethanol Mandate by Art Fraas and Rob Johansson
Panel 8: Theory and Methods I
Chair: Nandita Dasgupta, University of Maryland – Baltimore County
* Implications of a Weaker form of Complementarity by Jon Neill
* The Discount Rate for Public Projects by Richard O. Zerbe, Jr.
* The Role of Pareto and Compensation Principles in Benefit-Cost Analysis by Andrew Schmitz
Panel 9: Theory and Methods II
Chair: David Ballard, GRA, Inc.
* Is Willingness to Pay a Measure of Well-Being? by Mark Sagoff
* Using Subjective Well-Being Measures to Value Policy Outcomes by Kevin Marsh
* Valuing Foreign Lives and Civilizations in Benefit-Cost Analysis by David Dana
Panel 10: Energy
Chair: Joseph Cordes, The George Washington University
* Do Market Failures Justify Energy Efficiency Standards? by Wallace Oates, Ian Parry and David Evans
* Optimal Subsidies for Wind Power: An Application to the Cape Wind Project by Jonathan Haughton and David Tuerck
* Benefit-Cost Comparison of Alternative Propulsion Systems for Urban Delivery Vehicles by John D. Graham and Kerry Krutilla
Panel 11: Transportation
Chair: David Dana, Northwestern University School of Law
* Dulles Silver Line Metro: Cost Benefit Analysis Revisited by Nandita Dasgupta
* Quantifying the Public- and Private-Sector Benefit of PPP Toll Road Projects by Lei Zhang
* Benefit Cost Analysis of a Multiple Agency, Multiple Stakeholder Federal Investment Program: The NextGen Transformation of Air Traffic Control by David Ballard
For more information about the 2009 Society Meeting & Conference, eemail sbcainfo@u.washington.edu
To register go to https://tools.evans.washington.edu/register/bca/society09/
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