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To Be, or Not to Be, That Is the Question: An Empirical Study of the WTP for an Increased Life Expectancy at an Advanced Age.

This study reports an attempt to measure the value of an increased survival probability at advanced ages. It turns out that the average willingness to pay for a program which would increase the expected length of life by one year, conditional on having survived to the age of 75 years, is lower than $1,500. The willingness to pay increases with a person's age, but at a low and seemingly constant rate (1-4 percent per year). Copyright 1996 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Year of publication:
1996
Authors: Johannesson, Magnus ; Johansson, Per-Olov
Published in:
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. - Springer. - Vol. 13.1996, 2, p. 163-74
Publisher: Springer
Type of publication: Article
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