on health status. The VSL varies with age, income, the cause of death (e.g., cancer), and other factors. This chapter … also examines the risk-risk analysis approach and provides a comprehensive survey of the use of VSL by government agencies. …The value of risks to life as measured by the risk-money trade-off plays a fundamental role in economic analyses of …

pollution regulations, however, are linked to reductions in the risk of dying for cancer, heart disease, and respiratory …—are strongly statistically significant. All else the same, the fact that the cause of the death is “cancer” results in a VSL that … question whether using VSL figures based on private risk reduction, which is usually recommended to avoid double …

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 … also provides an overview of the current methodology for valuing risks of both mortality and morbidity, placing particular …

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