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 …

emphasis on ex ante measurements of individuals' willingness to pay for risk reductions. We present the underlying theory, the … focus is on the practices that U.S. regulatory agencies use for assessing cancer risk, although we also provide a brief … risk reductions. Once we have established the economic framework of efficient regulatory policies, we then provide an …

BackgroundClinical guidelines commonly recommend preventive treatments for people above a risk-threshold. Therefore …, decision-makers must have faith in risk-prediction tools and model-based cost-effectiveness analyses for people at different … levels of risk. Two problems that arise are inadequate handling of competing risks of death and failing to account for direct …

and costs of precaution are ex-ante uncertain, and this places a risk burden on both injurers and victims. The optimal … policy should, at the same time, strike a balance between benefits and costs of the measures, and attenuate the ex-ante risk … (positive or negative) and their disposition towards risk. With corrective taxes, it also depends on the elasticity of …