Search Results - subject:"value of a statistical life."

Measuring how risk tradeoffs adjust with income

Evans, Mary; Smith, V. - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 40 (2010) 1, pp. 33-55

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Demand for health risk reductions: A cross-national comparison between the U.S. and Canada

Cameron, Trudy; DeShazo, J.; Stiffler, Peter - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 41 (2010) 3, pp. 245-273

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The Economic Value of Preventing Fatalities: Recent evidence on the value of a statistical life in Sweden

Hultkrantz, Lars; Svensson, Mikael - Handelshögskolan, Örebro Universitet - 2010

fatalities, referred to as the value of a statistical life (VSL), and summarizes recent published empirical evidence on VSL in … economic evaluations in this sector. Preferred policy estimates of the value of a statistical life in the road sector ranges …

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The willingness to pay for mortality risk reductions: A comparison of the United States and Canada

Alberini, Anna; Krupnick, Alan; Cropper, Maureen; … - 2001

We present the results of two contingent valuation surveys conducted in Hamilton, Canada and nation-wide in the US to elicit WTP for reductions in one's risk of death. We find that the Values of a Statistical Life implied by WTP are very similar across the two studies, and range from $930,000 to...

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Precautionary behavior and willingness to pay for a mortality risk reduction: Searching for the expected relationship

Svensson, Mikael - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 39 (2009) 1, pp. 65-85

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Complementarity and the Measurement of Individual Risk Tradeoffs: Accounting for Quantity and Quality of Life Effects

Evans, Mary; Smith, V. Kerry - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 41 (2008) 3, pp. 381-400

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Paying for permanence: Public preferences for contaminated site cleanup

Alberini, Anna; Tonin, Stefania; Turvani, Margherita; … - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 34 (2007) 2, pp. 155-178

We use conjoint choice questions to investigate the preferences of people in four cities in Italy for income and future/permanent mortality risk reductions delivered by contaminated site remediation policies. The VSL is €5.6 million for an immediate risk reduction. If the risk reduction takes...

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Precautionary Behavior and Willingness to Pay for a Mortality Risk Reduction:Searching for the Expected Relationship

Svensson, Mikael - Handelshögskolan, Örebro Universitet - 2007

a mortality risk reduction. The paper also shows estimates of the value of a statistical life based on seat belt and …

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On the definition and estimation of the value of a “statistical life”

JOHANSSON, Per-Olov - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2006

The presentation will discuss the economic meaning of the concept of the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL) and review … several of the issues discussed in the literature. For example, how do we define the value of a (statistical) life? Are there … the value of a statistical life in both single-period models and life-cycle models. Models with and without actuarially …

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An Empirical Bayes Approach to Combining and Comparing Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life for Environmental Policy Analysis

Kochi, Ikuho; Hubbell, Bryan; Kramer, Randall - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 34 (2006) 3, pp. 385-406

An empirical Bayes pooling method is used to combine and compare estimates of the value of a statistical life (VSL …

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