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Grants
10
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Total Awarded
$2,962,923
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Years
1985 - 2014
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Categories
Grants
This grant to the University of Washington Evans School of Public Affairs supports the re-launch of the Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis. Capitalizing on growing interest in the field and the move to a new publisher, Cambridge University Press, the Journal will pursue the goal of supporting rigorous research, disseminating the results, and advancing the use of benefit-cost analysis in social policy decisions. The Journal is well positioned to reach both academics and policymakers and to influence practice, policy and scholarship.
Founded as an outgrowth of the Foundation’s support of the Benefit-Cost Analysis Center of the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington-Seattle, the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis is an international group of practitioners, academics, and others working to improve the theory and application of benefit-cost analysis. It will use this grant for two types of activities: strengthening the Society’s operational infrastructure by hiring an executive director and developing a strategic business plan; and sponsoring three annual Social Benefit-Cost Analysis Conferences for the intellectual and professional development of its members and the larger field.
In support of the Center for Benefit-Cost Analysis (over four years).
In support of three annual Conferences on Benefit-Cost Analysis (over three years).
To develop and promote standards and principles for benefit-cost analysis of social programs (over 18 months).
In support of a conference on cost-benefit analysis in social policy decision-making.
To help establish a virtual Center for Benefit-Cost Analysis (over two years).
To explore, through a committee of advisors and commissioned papers, the status and potential of reform in American high schools.
To support the research project Responding to Changes in the Timber Economy: An Interdisciplinary, International Approach, under the direction of Paul Sommers, in collaboration with William Beyers, Leif Lindmark, Robert Lee, Kjell Lundmark, William Beyers, and Anders Hedlund.
To review and assess the results of the national education reform movement.