The considerable literature on the value of a statistical life (VSL) documents the wage-mortality risk tradeoffs for …. Because of the longer life expectancy for children, there have been proposals to add a premium to their VSL, which would … generate an inconsistency with revealed preference estimates of the VSL trajectory over the life cycle. The shorter life …

statistical life (VSL) and relative severity/injury estimates from the Department of Transportation (DOT), we estimate an overall … is almost 40% higher than the total valuation of $1.6 trillion (using about $11 million VSL from the DOT) for all …

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

bags to trace out the demand curve for air bags and the implied distribution of the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL …) across consumers. While imprecise, our preferred point estimates indicate that the median VSL is between $7 million and $13 …

bags to trace out the demand curve for air bags and the implied distribution of the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL …) across consumers. While imprecise, our preferred point estimates indicate that the median VSL is between $7 million and $13 …

might be around one-third this value. Since this estimate is an upper bound of the value of a statistical life (VSL), we set … increased speed limits to recover the VSL. The empirical implementation of this model produces estimates of the VSL that are …

the channel of mortality selection. These results survive a rich set of placebo and falsification tests. Finally, our …

This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic as a natural experiment to examine whether air pollution affects …-city differences in baseline pollution measures based on coal-fired electricity generating capacity for a sample 183 American cities …. The findings suggest that air pollution exacerbated the impact of the pandemic. Proximity to World War I military bases …

ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for harvesting, and that the instantaneous heat …