This page contains links to research produced by the Center, and by other organizations not affiliated with the center. It also contains links to selected relevant government documents regarding the practice of BCA.
Note: The links provided mainly connect to sources outside the Center's website, either to webpages or directly to .pdf or .doc files. Approximate sizes of PDF files have been included. Depending on your browser settings, the files may open in your browser or automatically begin downloading.
Transportation benefit-cost analysis website by the Transportation Economics Committee of the Transportation Research Board
Principles and Guidelines for Evaluating Federal Water Projects: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Planning and the Use of Benefit Cost Analysis, is a report for the Congressional Research Service prepared as a course capstone project by members of the PbAF 599D course at the Evans School of Public Affairs, and supervised by Drs. Richard O. Zerbe, Jr. and Joseph Cook.
The Top Tier Evidence initiative -- a validated resource used by federal officials to identify social programs meeting the Congressional Top Tier evidence standard -- has identified the Transitional Care Model as one of the few program models currently meeting this standard.
The Tufts Medical Center Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Registry has been updated with 2008 data. This update adds more than 300 cost-effectiveness analyses and 900 cost-effectiveness ratios to the online, searchable database.
Presentations from the March 4-5 workshop Strengthening Benefit-Cost Methodology for the Evaluation of Early Childhood Interventions are available online. BCA Center principal researcher Richard Zerbe was invited to attend this workshop, organized Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the National Research Council (NRC) and Institute of Medicine (IOM), and funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Contact Wendy Keenan, wkeenan at nas.edu with questions.
Federal Agency Benefit-Cost Analysis Principles & Standards for Social Programs compiled by Zerbe, Masuda, Davis (69 KB DOC)
Office of Management and Budget, Federal Regulations, and Executive Orders:
- Regulatory Right-to-Know Act of 1999
- Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 (29 KB PDF)
- Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996
- OMB Circular A-4
- OMB Circular A-11
- OMB Circular A-94
- White House Executive Order 12866
- Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 (see Section 1111.1.A)
Department of Justice:
- NIJ Resource for Evaluating Child Advocacy Centers (75 KB PDF)
- Uniform Appraisal Standards for Federal Land Acquisitions
Housing and Urban Development:
- Housing and Innovation Appraisal Process (334 KB PDF)
- HUD System of Development Methodology
- Housing Impact Analysis (1959 KB PDF)
- CBA Template
Department of Health & Human Services
- Outcomes Measurement interpreting OMB Report of 2003 and A-94
- Appendix D of Regulatory Decisions: 2003 Report to Congress on the Costs and Benefits of Federal Regulations and Unfunded Mandates on State, Local and Tribal Entities
- Evaluating Measures of Health Benefits for Environmental, Health & Safety Regulation, Institute of Medicine
- Valuing Health Outcomes: Policy Choices and Technical Issues, Resources for the Future Report
Asian Development Bank
Washington State BCA Projects
Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy
Find out more the Benefit-Cost Analysis Center by contacting us at bcac@uw.edu or 206.616.4090.