respondents. We examine how homeowners in the United Kingdom and Italy value mortality risk reductions by asking them to choose … among hypothetical variants of their home that differ in terms of mortality risks from air pollution and price. To our … find that those who face higher baseline risks, due to higher air pollution levels where they live, hold a higher VSL …

compensating wage differential for job safety risk revealed in the labor market via hedonic equilibrium outcomes. The decisions in … turn reveal the value of a statistical life (VSL), the value of a statistical injury (VSI), and the value of a statistical … life year (VSLY), which have both mortality and morbidity aspects that we describe and apply here. All such tradeoff rates …

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 … health and safety risks and serves as the principal benefit measure for government risk regulation policies. The hedonic …

pollution regulations, however, are linked to reductions in the risk of dying for cancer, heart disease, and respiratory … question whether using VSL figures based on private risk reduction, which is usually recommended to avoid double … ; Mortality Risk Reductions ; Cost-benefit Analysis ; Forced Choice Questions …

The fatality risk-money tradeoff that is the value of a statistical life (VSL) may vary with the nature of the fatality … component of VSL, rather than the value of the morbidity risk …. This article analyzes fatality risks accompanied by morbidity effects of different duration to disentangle the mortality …

statistical life (VSL) and relative severity/injury estimates from the Department of Transportation (DOT), we estimate an overall … is almost 40% higher than the total valuation of $1.6 trillion (using about $11 million VSL from the DOT) for all …

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

and Cairns, and hence to much larger estimates of the reduced mortality benefits of remediating the hazardous waste in the … Naples and Caserta areas. We also examine the importance of the discount rates, since the mortality benefits of remediation … ; Hazardous Waste Sites ; Contaminated Sites ; Cancer ; Mortality Benefits ; Cost-Benefit Analysis …

cancer mortality risk when answering the valuation questions. We estimate the cancer VSL to be between € 1.9 and 5.7 million … in the first place). The product of these two probabilities is the unconditional cancer mortality risk. Our hypothetical …, depending on whether the (unconditional) mortality risk was reduced by lowering the chance of getting cancer, increasing the …

adults, and that apply a cancer premium. -- VSL ; Conjoint Choice Experiments ; Mortality Risk Reductions ; Cost … the effect of context on the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL), an important input into the calculation of the mortality … that there is heterogeneity in the VSL, and that such heterogeneity is primarily driven by risk characteristics and mode of …