construction of housing projects just meters away from the waste deposit, put a large number of families at risk. Our data include …

This paper examines the long-term impacts of in-utero and early childhood exposure to ambient air pollution on adult … use the sharp changes in ambient air pollution concentrations driven by the implementation of the 1970 Clean Air Act …

Meta-regression estimates of the value of a statistical life (VSL) controlling for publication selection bias yield … bias-corrected estimates of VSL that are higher for labor market studies using the more recent Census of Fatal Occupational … of the variable used to capture publication bias effects. Meta-regression estimates for a large sample of VSL estimates …

statistical life by smoking status. Using these values in conjunction with the increase in the mortality risk over the life cycle …This article estimates the mortality cost of smoking based on the first labor market estimates of the value of … life cycle, produces an estimate of the private mortality cost of smoking of $222 per pack for men and $94 per pack for …

Tradeoffs between monetary wealth and fatal safety risks are summarized in the value of a statistical life (VSL), a …, that must be confronted in order to provide a credible estimate of a VSL. The paper concludes with an application of these …

risk. This perspective overlooks how innovation can lower physical risks borne by healthy patients facing the prospect of … of health insurance. We show that any innovation worth buying reduces overall risk, thereby generating positive insurance …, we find that the physical risk-reduction value of these technologies is ten times greater than the financial risk they …

It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and …), on the benefits of a commonly used improved stove that laboratory tests showed to reduce indoor air pollution and require …

We examine the impact of piped water on the under-1 infant mortality rate (IMR) in Brazil using a novel econometric … (2007), our estimates indicate that the provision of piped water reduces infant mortality by significantly more at the … infant mortality. …

data from the Toxic Release Inventory Program and Vital Statistics Natality and Mortality files, we find significant … mortality. Our results are robust to several specification checks, such as comparing developmental to non …