Detailed surveys examine risk and uncertainty, from classical and foundational work through current developments …. Presents coherent summaries of risk and uncertainty that inform major areas in economics and finance …

with high stated values of statistical life, who do not smoke, and who have risk beliefs that are highly elastic with …

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 …

estimates in this subset of the literature. The bias is greatest for the largest estimates, possibly because the high …. Estimates from lower-income countries exhibit less bias but remain unreliable for benefit-cost analysis. Unlike labor market … preferable approach to monetizing mortality risk benefits is to draw on income-adjusted estimates from labor market studies in …