mortality costs to smokers indicates a personal mortality cost on the order of $200 per pack for men and $100 for women using a … 3 percent discount rate, but based on smokers' rates of time preference the costs are reduced by about an order of …

current citizens are willing to pay to reduce mortality risks. Although the VSL is commonly used in policymaking today, there … costs for citizens in excess of their promised benefits. Using a more accurate assessment of the value of life would likely …

mortality. The economy consists of two sectors: final goods production and a health care sector, selling medical services to … individuals. Individuals demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We derive the age …

incident. The results suggest that violent crime has large and persistent effects on mortality, suicide, earnings, work status … more than 80 percent result from excess mortality. Estimates on socio-economic outcomes show robustness against selection … on unobserved characteristics. Estimates on mortality and suicides are very robust. …

willingness to pay for reduced mortality for different age groups. I find a significant inverted-U shape to the age-VSL function …