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Death, Happiness, and the Calculation of Compensatory Damages
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2007
This paper studies the mental distress caused by bereavement. The largest emotional losses are from the death of a spouse; the second-worst in severity are the losses from the death of a child; the third-worst is the death of a parent. The paper explores how happiness regression equations might be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775562
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Death, happiness, and the calculation of compensatory damages
Oswald, Andrew J. (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper studies the mental distress caused by bereavement. The largest emotional losses are from the death of a spouse; the second-worst in severity are the losses from the death of a child; the third-worst is the death of a parent. The paper explores how happiness regression equations might be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003608456
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Death, happiness, and the calculation of compensatory damages
Oswald, Andrew J. (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003595047
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Partner (dis)agreement on moving desires and the subsequent moving behaviour of couples
Coulter, Rory; Ham, Maarten van; Feijten, Peteke - 2011
residential mobility relate moving behaviour to the housing and neighbourhood satisfaction and pre-move thoughts of individuals … desires ; partner disagreements ; satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235588
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What should we spend to save lives in a pandemic? : a critique of the value of statistical life
Adler, Matthew D. - In: Covid economics : vetted and real-time papers (2020) 33, pp. 1-45
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012311184
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Willingness to Pay to Reduce Mortality Risks : Evidence from a Three-Country Contingent Valuation Study
Alberini, Anna; Markandya, Anil; Hunt, Alistair - 2010
Valuing a change in the risk of death is a key input into the calculation of the benefits of environmental policies that save lives. Typically such risks are monetized using the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL). Because the majority of the lives saved by environmental policies are those of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014069607
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Willingness to pay to reduce mortality risks : evidence from a three-country contingent valuation study
Alberini, Anna; Hunt, Alistair; Markandya, Anil - 2004
Valuing a change in the risk of death is a key input into the calculation of the benefits of environmental policies that save lives. Typically such risks are monetized using the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL). Because the majority of the lives saved by environmental policies are those of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606716
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Only in the heat of the moment? : a study of the relationship between weather and mortality in Germany
Karlsson, Martin; Schmitt, Maike - 2011
and mortality and implement several panel data estimation approaches. We find that heat has a significant positive impact …In this study we analyze the relationship between heat events and mortality in Germany. The main research questions are …: Does heat lead to rising mortality and if yes, are the effects persistent or compensated for in the near future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009242266
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Does the cause of death matter? : the effect of dread, controllability, exposure and latency on the Vsl
Alberini, Anna; Šcasný, Milan - 2010
; Mortality Risk Reductions ; Cost-benefit Analysis ; Forced Choice Questions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008747732
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Estimating the Life Expectancy and Value of Statistical Life (VSL) Losses from COVID-19 Infections in the United States
Wilson, Linus - 2020
Americans aged sixty or older stand to lose 153 to 222 days of life expectancy from contracting COVID-19. Over 90 percent of the U.S. population was under stay at home orders by April 2020. These social distancing measures to slow the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 or novel coronavirus have led to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836439