Utility Functions That Depend on Health Status: Estimates and Economic Implications.

Taylor's series and logarithmic estimates of health state-dependent utility functions both imply that job injuries reduce one's utility and marginal utility of income, thus rejecting the monetary loss equivalent formulation. Injury valuations have unitary income elasticity, and the valuation of nonincremental risk changes and effects of base risks follow economic predictions. Copyright 1990 by American Economic Association.

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Year of publication:	1990
Authors:	Viscusi, W Kip ; Evans, William N
Published in:	American Economic Review. - American Economic Association - AEA. - Vol. 80.1990, 3, p. 353-74
Publisher:	American Economic Association - AEA

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Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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