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Using mandated speed limits to measure the value of a statistical life

Ashenfelter, Orley; Greenstone, Michael - 2002

In 1987 the federal government permitted states to raise the speed limit on their rural interstate roads, but not on their urban interstate roads, from 55 mph to 65 mph for the first time in over a decade. Since the states that adopted the higher speed limit must have valued the travel hours...

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Adapting to climate change : the remarkable decline in the US temperature-mortality relationship over the twentieth century

Barreca, Alan I.; Clay, Karen; Deschênes, Olivier; … - In: Journal of political economy 124 (2016) 1, pp. 105-159

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Adapting to climate change : the remarkable decline in the US temperature-mortality relationship over the 20th century

Barreca, Alan I.; Clay, Karen; Deschênes, Olivier; … - 2015

technologies to new sectors and regions. This paper examines the evolution of the temperature-mortality relationship over the … adaptations that may be useful in the coming decades. There are three primary findings. First, the mortality impact of days with a … 14,000 fewer fatalities annually than if the pre-1960 impacts of high temperature on mortality still prevailed. Second …

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