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Compensating differentials for occupational health and safety risks : implications of recent evidence
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip - 2022
turn reveal the value of a statistical life (VSL), the value of a statistical injury (VSI), and the value of a statistical … empirical research on VSL and its related concepts and link the empirical results to the on-going examinations of many …
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Compensating Differentials for Occupational Health and Safety Risks: Implications of Recent Evidence
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip - 2022
turn reveal the value of a statistical life (VSL), the value of a statistical injury (VSI), and the value of a statistical … empirical research on VSL and its related concepts and link the empirical results to the on-going examinations of many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177758
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Compensating differentials for occupational health and safety risks : implications of recent evidence
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip - In: 50th celebratory volume, (pp. 83-116). 2023
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Can property values capture changes in environmental health risks? : evidence from a stated preference study in Italy and the UK
Guignet, Dennis; Alberini, Anna - 2013
quantitative and clearly specified measure of health risks. We find that Italian homeowners hold a value of a statistical life (VSL …) of about €6.4 million, but UK homeowners tend to hold a much lower VSL (€2.1 million). This may be due to the fact that … find that those who face higher baseline risks, due to higher air pollution levels where they live, hold a higher VSL …
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Evidence of variable discount rates and non-standard discounting in mortality risk valuation
McDonald, Rebecca; Chilton, Susan M.; Jones-Lee, Michael W. - In: Journal of environmental economics and management : … 82 (2017), pp. 152-167
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New Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life Using Air Bag Regulations as a Quasi-Experiment
Rohlfs, Chris; Sullivan, Ryan; Kniesner, Thomas J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
bags to trace out the demand curve for air bags and the implied distribution of the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL …) across consumers. While imprecise, our preferred point estimates indicate that the median VSL is between $7 million and $13 …
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Willingness to Accept Equals Willingness to Pay for Labor Market Estimates of the Value of Statistical Life
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip; Ziliak, James P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
less safety, and the value of statistical life (VSL). We present econometric estimates that in the important case of … use labor market estimates of VSL as a measure of the willingness to pay for additional safety. …
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Can Property Values Capture Changes in Environmental Health Risks? Evidence from a Stated Preference Study in Italy and the UK
Guignet, Dennis; Alberini, Anna - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
quantitative and clearly specified measure of health risks. We find that Italian homeowners hold a value of a statistical life (VSL …) of about €6.4 million, but UK homeowners tend to hold a much lower VSL (€2.1 million). This may be due to the fact that … find that those who face higher baseline risks, due to higher air pollution levels where they live, hold a higher VSL …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904937
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Willingness to accept equals willingness to pay for labor market estimates of the value of a statistical life
Kniesner, Thomas; Viscusi, W.; Ziliak, James - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 48 (2014) 3, pp. 187-205
less safety, and the value of a statistical life (VSL). We present econometric estimates using panel data to analyze the … VSL levels associated with job changes that may affect the worker’s exposure to fatal injury risks. Our baseline VSL …-to-accept VSL estimates associated with wage increases for greater risks and willingness-to-pay VSL estimates as reflected in wage …
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The Long-Run Discount Rate Controversy
Gollier, Christian; Hammitt, James K. - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 6 (2014) 1, pp. 273-295
The choice of the rate at which one should discount the long-term benefits of mitigating climate change is highly controversial. Both the level and the slope of the term structure of discount rates have been discussed intensively in relation to the determination of the social cost of carbon....
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