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. …

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 …

life year (VSLY), which have both mortality and morbidity aspects that we describe and apply here. All such tradeoff rates …The most enduring measure of how individuals make personal decisions affecting their health and safety is the … compensating wage differential for job safety risk revealed in the labor market via hedonic equilibrium outcomes. The decisions in …