This paper reports the first effort to use data to evaluate how new information, acquired through exogenous health shocks, affects people's longevity expectations. We find that smokers react differently to health shocks than do those who quit smoking or never smoked. These differences, together...

Deciding how to allocate forage among animals is a fundamentally important process in range management. The wisdom of these decisions can be enhanced by estimating the marginal value of forage needed by competing species. We present a method for ...

This article provides the first controlled evaluation of how different information materials explaining the risks from radon influenced people's perceptions of these risks. Using a panel study, it was possible to observe how stated risk perceptions responded to information about indoor radon...

1 Measuring Water Quality Benefits: An Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Regulation: An Overview -- 1.3 Objectives -- 1.4 Preview -- 1.5 References -- 2 The Conceptual Basis of Benefits Estimation -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 A Brief Review of the Conventional Theory of Benefits Measurement --...