PA 881 Cost-Benefit Analysis

Routinely offered: This course is offered every year.

This course will present the welfare economics underpinnings for evaluating the social benefits and costs of government activities. Issues such as uncertainty, the social discount rate, and welfare weights will be discussed; case studies from the environmental, social policy, and agricultural areas will be studied.

Instructor(s)

Morgan Edwards

Katherine Richard

Recent Syllabus

Fall 2026 Syllabus – Richard

Fall 2025 Syllabus – Edwards

Past reports

Examples of cost-benefit analysis reports from previous years.

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