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The Value of Statistical Life in Road Safety: A Meta-Analysis
Blaeij, Arianne de; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Institute - 2000
fatal accidents. The evaluation of fatal accident costs crucially depends on the availability of an estimate for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137248
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The Value of Statistical Life in Road Safety: A Meta-Analysis
Blaeij, Arianne de; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000
fatal accidents. The evaluation of fatal accident costs crucially depends on theavailability of an estimate for the economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257341
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ARE YOU PANICKED? ECONOMIC AND HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS: A PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH IN ROMANIAN CONTEXT
PANDELICA, Amalia; DIDEA, Ionel; DIACONU, Mihaela - In: Scientific Bulletin - Economic Sciences 12 (2013) 1, pp. 39-49
), thus, this study do not offer a long term evaluation. …
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Valuation of Safety under Reference-Dependent Evaluation of Income
Robles-Zurita, José Antonio - Departamento de Economía, Universidad Pablo de Olavide - 2015
We analyze data of a Spanish nationally-representative survey where subjects reported their Willingness To Pay (WTP) for road safety improvements; specifically they hypothetically paid for a reduction of the risk of a road fatality and several injuries. Respondents also reported their current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011209925
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The Marginal Willingness-to-Pay for Health Related Food Characteristics
Thunström, Linda - Handelns Utredningsinstitut (HUI Research) - 2007
With food, consumers often face a trade-off between taste and nutrition. A priori, it is not obvious which would be more important to the average consumer, so it is an empirical question how consumers value food characteristics that simultaneously affect taste and nutritional value. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190541
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Willingness to pay for wholesome canteen takeaway
Nordström, Jonas - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2011
The primary objective of this study was to estimate the willingness to pay (WTP) for a new intervention at the workplace: wholesome canteen takeaways (CTA), i.e. a low fat meal with a large amount of vegetables prepared at the workplace canteen that only requires re-heating. The contingent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371424
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The Value of Health
Bleichrodt, Bleichrodt, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008
at all in the best interests of patients. We, scientists, have the responsibility to bridge the gap between theory and … reality. Prospect theory respects reality. Now, we have all the opportunity to reliably value health. And, these values can … even be obtained free of charge: we do not have to collect additional data. We can apply prospect theory immediately. What …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730467
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Estimating the willingness to pay for community healthcare insurance in rural Nigeria
Ataguba, John E.; Ichoku, Hyacinth E.; Fonta, William M. - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2008
Health care financing in Nigeria is dominated by private out-of-pocket payment that is not affordable to the poor. This has greatly reduced access to quality health care for the predominantly rural poor. Insurance schemes as options for increasing access to health care services have not received...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008630020
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The Value of Road and Railway Safety - an Overview
Winslott Hiselius, Lena - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2003
The level of safety investments can be argued to vary between sectors. The safety investments legally required and carried out within the railway sector indicate that there is a higher implicit value in preventing a fatality within the rail sector than within the road sector. The literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190596
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The Value of a Statistical Life
Andersson, Henrik; Treich, Nicolas - Transportekonomi, Väg- och Transportforskninginstitut (VTI) - 2008
This paper on the value of a statistical life (VSL) has been prepared for the Handbook in Transport Economics, edited by André de Palma, Robin Lindsey, Emile Quinet and Roger Vickerman. The paper's first objective is to survey some classical theoretical and empirical findings in the VSL...
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