example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from …

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

; Mortality Risk Reductions ; Cost-benefit Analysis ; Forced Choice Questions …

that have been distinguished by Zweifel, Felder and Meier (1999), viz. the cost of morbidity and the cost of mortality … (their "red herring" hypothesis claims that neglecting the mortality component results in excessive estimates of future …