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Mortality risk due to water pollution is one of serious problems especially for Asian developing countries. The timing … survey data sets in Laos and Vietnam to ask citizens' WTP for mortality risk reduction, we found relative robust …
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The anticipation of bad future events reduces currently experienced happiness and it may through this channel elicit detrimental behavioral responses. We explore this idea in the context of endogenous health and aging. We integrate physiological aging into a life-cycle model, calibrate it with...
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workers and firms matched to mortality and patient records, we document a stunning asymmetry: when a man loses his job in a …
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There's no doubt that the risk factors typical of a certain lifestyle which may have a negative impact on human health … risk when they don't invest in actions aiming to prevent certain diseases, especially when the disease risk grows … eating habits. Considering that there are several risk factors, we realize the importance of studying the food factor …
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Biodiversity prospecting refers to the exploration of the commercial value of genetic and biochemical resources. In this chapter, we study a drug producing pharmaceutical firm (PF) that searches for potentially useful chemicals made by wild organisms in a conservation area. This PF is able to...
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