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.
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Recent Syllabus
Fall 2023 Edwards Syllabus (pdf)
Fall 2023 Weimer Syllabus (pdf)
Past reports
Examples of cost-benefit analysis reports from previous years.
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Child Savings Accounts in Wisconsin: A Cost-Benefit Analysis
December 30, 2022