Cropper, Maureen L; Aydede, Sema K; Portney, Paul R - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 8 (1994) 3, pp. 243-65
In surveys of 3,000 households, we have found that people attach less importance to saving lives in the future than to saving lives today, and less importance to saving older persons than to saving younger persons. For the median respondent, saving six people in 25 years is equivalent to saving...