compensating wage differential for job safety risk revealed in the labor market via hedonic equilibrium outcomes. The decisions in … life year (VSLY), which have both mortality and morbidity aspects that we describe and apply here. All such tradeoff rates …

nationally representative U.S. sample of 3,585 households. Based on the average annual gastrointestinal (GI) illness risk in the … U.S. from drinking water of about 5 illnesses per 100 population, eliminating the GI risk has a median annual value per … household of $219. The considerable heterogeneity in the values arises largely from differences in attitudes towards risk and …

; Mortality Risk Reductions ; Cost-benefit Analysis ; Forced Choice Questions … pollution regulations, however, are linked to reductions in the risk of dying for cancer, heart disease, and respiratory … higher when the risk reduction is delivered by a public program, and increases with the effectiveness rating assigned by the …

The fatality risk-money tradeoff that is the value of a statistical life (VSL) may vary with the nature of the fatality …. This article analyzes fatality risks accompanied by morbidity effects of different duration to disentangle the mortality … the sum of the value of the fatality risk and the value of the morbidity risk. Labor market valuations of morbidity risks …

The estimates used to value mortality risk reductions are a major determinant of the benefits of many public health and … information on the research discussed in: Robinson, L.A., J.K. Hammitt, and L. O’Keeffe. “Valuing Mortality Risk Reductions in … those affected by a policy to exchange their own income for the risk reductions they experience. While these values are …

This study elicits individual preferences for reducing morbidity and mortality risk in the context of an infectious …; respondents prefer the benefits of the program sooner than later, programs that reduce both the mortality and morbidity risk, and …. However, a main objective of this study is to examine scope sensitivity of mortality risk reductions using a novel approach …

This study elicits individual preferences for reducing morbidity and mortality risk in the context of an infectious …; respondents prefer the benefits of the program sooner than later, programs that reduce both the mortality and morbidity risk, and …. However, a main objective of this study is to examine scope sensitivity of mortality risk reductions using a novel approach …