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Risk aversion and the value of risk to life
Bommier, Antoine; Villeneuve, Bertrand - 2010
risk neutrality with respect to life duration. To overpass this limitation, we extend the theory to a simple variety of …-saving programs: current practice, we estimate, puts too little weight on mortality risk reduction of the young. Our correction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008748321
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Risk aversion and the value of risk to life
Bommier, Antoine; Villeneuve, Bertrand - 2004
This paper argues for an alternative methodology to estimate the value of risk to life. By relaxing the assumption of additive separability, we introduce risk aversion with respect to the length of life and show that the extended model better fits available data. This is crucial for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002225860
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Risk Aversion and the Value of Risk to Life
Bommier, Antoine; Villeneuve, Bertrand - 2010
risk neutrality with respect to life duration. To overpass this limitation, we extend the theory to a simple variety of …-saving programs: current practice, we estimate, puts too little weight on mortality risk reduction of the young. Our correction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753197
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Risk Aversion and the Value of Risk to Life
Bommier, Antoine - 2015
risk neutrality with respect to life duration. To overpass this limitation, we extend the theory to a simple variety of …-saving programs: current practice, we estimate, puts too little weight on mortality risk reduction of the young. Our correction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038592
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Risk Aversion and the Value of Risk to Life
Bommier, Antoine - 2015
risk neutrality with respect to life duration. To overpass this limitation, we extend the theory to a simple variety of … practice, we estimate, puts too little weight on mortality risk reduction of the young. Our correction exceeds in magnitude …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012707443
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Risk Aversion and the Value of Risk to Life
Villeneuve, Bertrand; Bommier, Antoine - 2021
This paper argues for an alternative methodology to estimate the value of risk to life. By relaxing the assumption of additive separability, we introduce risk aversion with respect to the length of life and show that the extended model better fits available data. This is crucial for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319008
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Risk aversion and the value of risk to life
Bommier, Antoine; Villeneuve, Bertrand - 2004
This paper argues for an alternative methodology to estimate the value of risk to life. By relaxing the assumption of additive separability, we introduce risk aversion with respect to the length of life and show that the extended model better fits available data. This is crucial for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261253
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Statistical vs. Identified Lives in Benefit-Cost Analysis
Hammitt, James K. - 2013
Economic evaluation of projects involving changes in mortality risk conventionally assumes that lives are statistical … mortality risks and policy-induced changes in risk often differ among individuals although these differences are imperfectly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753987
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Does the cause of death matter? : the effect of dread, controllability, exposure and latency on the Vsl
Alberini, Anna; Šcasný, Milan - 2010
; Mortality Risk Reductions ; Cost-benefit Analysis ; Forced Choice Questions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008747732
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HIV/AIDS, risk aversion and intertemporal choice
Lammers, Judith; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 2008 - Rev.
time preference are not considered simultaneously. We correct for differential mortality risk, risk aversion and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373818