pollution regulations, however, are linked to reductions in the risk of dying for cancer, heart disease, and respiratory … higher when the risk reduction is delivered by a public program, and increases with the effectiveness rating assigned by the … respondent to public programs that address specific causes of death. The effectiveness of private risk-reducing behaviors is also …

focus is on the practices that U.S. regulatory agencies use for assessing cancer risk, although we also provide a brief … emphasis on ex ante measurements of individuals' willingness to pay for risk reductions. We present the underlying theory, the … risk reductions. Once we have established the economic framework of efficient regulatory policies, we then provide an …