-outcome relationship on a regional (county or cancer registry) level. Using data from the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance …, Epidemiology and End Results program we find that regions with relatively more of the same cancer type exhibit relatively better … health outcomes. -- Specialization ; experience ; cancer ; survival …

review them in this paper. We also produce new estimates of the cancer VPF using data from a recent survey conducted in Milan … ; Hazardous Waste Sites ; Contaminated Sites ; Cancer ; Mortality Benefits ; Cost-Benefit Analysis …

prevention service: cervical cancer screening. We implemented an at-scale field experiment in Uruguay, randomly encouraging women …

reduction in the risk of dying from cancer more than from other causes, but UK respondents do not hold such a premium. We also …

We use stated-preference methods to estimate the cancer Value per Statistical Life (VSL) and Value per Statistical Case … because they are comprised of two probabilities-that of getting cancer, and that of dying from it (conditional on getting it … in the first place). The product of these two probabilities is the unconditional cancer mortality risk. Our hypothetical …

suicides in comparison to deaths due to pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, and acute heart attack. The choice set consisted of … lives by suicide prevention lower than saving lives from pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, or acute heart attack. …