respondents. We examine how homeowners in the United Kingdom and Italy value mortality risk reductions by asking them to choose … quantitative and clearly specified measure of health risks. We find that Italian homeowners hold a value of a statistical life (VSL … among hypothetical variants of their home that differ in terms of mortality risks from air pollution and price. To our …

Valuing a change in the risk of death is a key input into the calculation of the benefits of environmental policies … that save lives. Typically such risks are monetized using the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL). Because the majority of … VSL should be lower for the elderly to reflect their fewer remaining life years. We conducted a contingent valuation …

contingent valuation surveys that elicit the willingness to pay (WTP) for mortality risk reductions. We examine the importance of …

cancer mortality risk when answering the valuation questions. We estimate the cancer VSL to be between € 1.9 and 5.7 million … about their willingness to pay for health risk reductions that are different from those used in earlier valuation work … in the first place). The product of these two probabilities is the unconditional cancer mortality risk. Our hypothetical …

question whether using VSL figures based on private risk reduction, which is usually recommended to avoid double … ; Mortality Risk Reductions ; Cost-benefit Analysis ; Forced Choice Questions … lives. To date, the VSL used in environmental policy analyses has not been adjusted for age or the cause of death. Air …

latency period on willingness to pay (WTP) for reduced mortality risk using both structural and reduced form approaches. We … find that delaying the time at which the risk reduction occurs by 10 to 30 years reduces WTP by more than half for …