The value of a statistical life (VSL) monetizes the expected loss in well-being associated with the risk of death. The … purposes of estimating the benefits of mortality risk reduction. Compared to ordinal well-being scales, the VSL also offers a …

optimal amount for risk-neutral decisions. A commitment to the length of play in advance, as in the case of long …

firearm homicide risks, and a similar number viewed them as a greater threat to the public. A risk-risk choice experiment … treated mass shooting deaths prevented as if they were 37.5% greater than the stated amounts. Risk-risk tradeoff studies and … stated preference studies more generally should account for whether respondents’ perceived risk levels differ from the risk …

, whereby regulations costing more per life saved than this threshold level are expected to increase mortality risk on net. Two … grounded in economic theory. Both methods build from the assumption that changes in income lead to changes in mortality risk …. The cost-per-life-saved cutoff value at which regulations increase mortality risk is estimated to have a lower bound value …