Guria, Jagadish; Leung, Joanne; Jones-Lee, Michael; … - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 32 (2005) 1, pp. 113-127
Large disparities between willingness to accept (WTA) and willingness to pay (WTP) based values of statistical life are commonly encountered in empirical studies. Standard economic theory suggests that if a public good is easily substitutable there should be no marked disparity between WTA and...