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 … find that those who face higher baseline risks, due to higher air pollution levels where they live, hold a higher VSL …

immediate risk reduction. If the risk reduction takes place 20 years from now, however, the implied VSL is about €1.26 million …We use conjoint choice questions to investigate people s preferences for income and reductions in mortality risks … permanent risk reductions, but not just any amount. Risk reductions in the nearer future are valued more highly than risk …

contingent valuation surveys that elicit the willingness to pay (WTP) for mortality risk reductions. We examine the importance of …

Valuing a change in the risk of death is a key input into the calculation of the benefits of environmental policies … that save lives. Typically such risks are monetized using the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL). Because the majority of … VSL should be lower for the elderly to reflect their fewer remaining life years. We conducted a contingent valuation …

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 …

We use conjoint choice questions to investigate people's tastes for cancer risk reductions and income in the context of …

remediation, where risk reductions may occur at different times, depending on the permanence of the remedy. We estimate this rate …

the effect of context on the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL), an important input into the calculation of the mortality … that there is heterogeneity in the VSL, and that such heterogeneity is primarily driven by risk characteristics and mode of … benefits of environmental policies that reduce premature mortality. We define 'context' broadly to include i) the cause of …

pollution regulations, however, are linked to reductions in the risk of dying for cancer, heart disease, and respiratory … question whether using VSL figures based on private risk reduction, which is usually recommended to avoid double … lives. To date, the VSL used in environmental policy analyses has not been adjusted for age or the cause of death. Air …

The considerable literature on the value of a statistical life (VSL) documents the wage-mortality risk tradeoffs for …. Because of the longer life expectancy for children, there have been proposals to add a premium to their VSL, which would … generate an inconsistency with revealed preference estimates of the VSL trajectory over the life cycle. The shorter life …