Search Results - subject:"Value of Human Life"

St.-Amour, Pascal - In: Journal of health economics 93 (2024), pp. 1-31

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St.-Amour, Pascal - 2022

The twin arguments of (i) protecting society's most vulnerable members (e.g. agents with pre-existing medical conditions, elders) from life-threatening complications and (ii) avoiding delicate medical triage decisions were often used to warrant the substantial reallocation of economic and health...

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On the value of time and human life

Gardes, François - 2021

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COVID-19: trade-offs, choices and economics

Tisdell, Clement A. - 2020

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Valuing life as an asset, as a statistic and at Gunpoint

Hugonnier, Julien; Pelgrin, Florian; St.-Amour, Pascal - 2018

The Human Capital (HK) and Statistical Life Values (VSL) differ sharply in their empirical pricing of a human life and lack a common theoretical background to justify these differences. We first contribute to the theory and measurement of life value by providing a unified framework to formally...

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How to Evaluate the Value of Human Life?

Karabchuk, Tatyana; Nikitina, Marina; Remezkova, Victoriya - In: Journal of Economic Sociology 15 (2014) 1, pp. 89-106

describes two main approaches of how to estimate the value of human life. According to the conception of human capital, the … and so on. At the next step, the authors compare the value of human life in Russia and other countries. Human development … life in Russia is very small and ranks with developing Asian countries in importance. The same low value of human life in …

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