Anticipated effects on the health and safety of future generations are of central importance in a number of policy contexts. It is, therefore, somewhat disturbing that there now exists a variety of practices and prescriptions concerning the extent to which future safety benefits or disbenefits...

In 1991, the U.K. Department of Transport commissioned a nationally representative sample survey with a view to estimating willingness-to-pay based monetary values for the prevention of nonfatal road injuries. The study design was somewhat unusual in that it involved not one but two main value...