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reduced risk of chronic kidney disease and therefore no estimate for the Value of a Statistical Case (VSC) of chronic kidney … preference survey estimating WTP to reduce the risk of symptomatic chronic kidney disease, termed serious kidney disease in the …
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Asthma is a non-communicable and non-curable lung disease that is associated with an array of environmental contaminants and chemicals. Many of these hazards are subject to regulation, or may be considered for regulation, in order to reduce exposures and prevent human health risks. However, the...
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or very low birth weight. Infants born with very low birth weight have a higher risk of suffering from neurosensory … the risk of very low birth weight, filling an important gap in the valuation literature and addressing a need for applied …
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Exposure to chemicals has been shown to reduce IQ in children. In turn, a person’s IQ is likely to affect their educational achievements, which may then affect lifetime earnings, more generally, a person’s quality of life. At the same time, authorities face challenges in regulating chemical...
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respondents. We examine how homeowners in the United Kingdom and Italy value mortality risk reductions by asking them to choose … reduction in the risk of dying from cancer more than from other causes, but UK respondents do not hold such a premium. We also …
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respondents. We examine how homeowners in the United Kingdom and Italy value mortality risk reductions by asking them to choose … reduction in the risk of dying from cancer more than from other causes, but UK respondents do not hold such a premium. We also …
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The value of risks to life as measured by the risk-money trade-off plays a fundamental role in economic analyses of … health and safety risks and serves as the principal benefit measure for government risk regulation policies. The hedonic … also examines the risk-risk analysis approach and provides a comprehensive survey of the use of VSL by government agencies. …
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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 … risk reductions also include two qualitative attributes-quality-of-life impacts and pain. The results show that respondents …
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, according to the theory of compensating differentials, there should be no relationship between on-the-job risk and job …
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We use conjoint choice questions to investigate people's tastes for cancer risk reductions and income in the context of …
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