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. …

emphasis on ex ante measurements of individuals' willingness to pay for risk reductions. We present the underlying theory, the …This chapter provides an overview of the current methodology for assessing environmental health risks. Our primary … focus is on the practices that U.S. regulatory agencies use for assessing cancer risk, although we also provide a brief …