; Innovation ; Pharmaceuticals ; Health care expenditure ; Cointegration …

the effect of context on the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL), an important input into the calculation of the mortality … benefits of environmental policies that reduce premature mortality. We define “context” broadly to include i) the cause of … adults, and that apply a cancer premium. -- VSL ; Conjoint Choice Experiments ; Mortality Risk Reductions ; Cost …

and Cairns, and hence to much larger estimates of the reduced mortality benefits of remediating the hazardous waste in the … Naples and Caserta areas. We also examine the importance of the discount rates, since the mortality benefits of remediation … ; Hazardous Waste Sites ; Contaminated Sites ; Cancer ; Mortality Benefits ; Cost-Benefit Analysis …

; Mortality Risk Reductions ; Cost-benefit Analysis ; Forced Choice Questions …

respondents. We examine how homeowners in the United Kingdom and Italy value mortality risk reductions by asking them to choose … among hypothetical variants of their home that differ in terms of mortality risks from air pollution and price. To our …

in the first place). The product of these two probabilities is the unconditional cancer mortality risk. Our hypothetical … cancer mortality risk when answering the valuation questions. We estimate the cancer VSL to be between € 1.9 and 5.7 million …, depending on whether the (unconditional) mortality risk was reduced by lowering the chance of getting cancer, increasing the …