Sensitivity (proportionality) of willingness to pay to (small) risk changes is often used as a criterion to test for … valid measures of economic preferences. In a contingent valuation (CV) study conducted in Austria, 1,005 respondents were … asked their willingness to pay (WTP) for preventing an increase in the risk of being killed in an avalanche of 1/42,500 and …

Sensitivity (proportionality) of willingness to pay to (small) risk changes is often used as a criterion to test for … valid measures of economic preferences. In a contingent valuation (CV) study conducted in Austria in February 2005 1 …,005 respondents were asked their willingness to pay (WTP) for preventing an increase in risk by 1/42,500 and 3/42,500, respectively …

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

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 …

The fatality risk-money tradeoff that is the value of a statistical life (VSL) may vary with the nature of the fatality … the sum of the value of the fatality risk and the value of the morbidity risk. Labor market valuations of morbidity risks … are positive, even for fatalities that are caused by traumatic injuries. The value of the fatality risk is the dominant …

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

The value of risks to life as measured by the risk-money trade-off plays a fundamental role in economic analyses of … health and safety risks and serves as the principal benefit measure for government risk regulation policies. The hedonic … also examines the risk-risk analysis approach and provides a comprehensive survey of the use of VSL by government agencies. …

, according to the theory of compensating differentials, there should be no relationship between on-the-job risk and job …