health and safety risks and serves as the principal benefit measure for government risk regulation policies. The hedonic … on health status. The VSL varies with age, income, the cause of death (e.g., cancer), and other factors. This chapter … also examines the risk-risk analysis approach and provides a comprehensive survey of the use of VSL by government agencies. …

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 …

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 …