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Delayed reconfigurable manufacturing system
Huang, Sihan; Wang, Guoxin; Yan, Yan - In: International journal of production research 57 (2019) 8, pp. 2372-2391
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Context and the VSL: Evidence from a Stated Preference Study in Italy and the Czech Republic
Alberini, Anna; Ščasný, Milan - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 49 (2011) 4, pp. 511-538
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Does the WTA/WTP ratio diminish as the severity of a health complaint is reduced? Testing for smoothness of the underlying utility of wealth function
Chilton, Susan; Jones-Lee, Michael; McDonald, Rebecca; … - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 45 (2012) 1, pp. 1-24
violate the assumption of smoothness that underpins the standard analysis of the Value of Statistical Life (VSL) and safety …
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The Role of Publication Selection Bias in Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life
Viscusi, W. Kip - In: American Journal of Health Economics 1 (2015) Winter, pp. 27-52
Meta-regression estimates of the value of a statistical life (VSL) controlling for publication selection bias often … yield bias-corrected estimates of VSL that are substantially below the mean VSL estimates. Labor market studies using the … findings for a large sample of all VSL estimates based on labor market studies using CFOI data and for four meta-analysis data …
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Valuing Health Risk Changes Using a Life-Cycle Consumption Framework
Newbold, Stephen C. - National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), … - 2011
Government agencies routinely use the “value of a statistical life” (VSL) in benefit-cost analyses of proposed … approach based on the VSL, and it can be used to evaluate mortality and morbidity effects simultaneously in an internally …
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Supplementary materials to accompany Demand for Health Risk Reductions
Cameron, Trudy Ann; DeShazo, J.R. - Department of Economics, University of Oregon - 2010
This document contains supplementary materials to accompany all papers using the “private choices†survey associated with our larger project on the valuation of morbidity and mortality risk reductions for policy analysis. This is a “living document†in that we plan to...
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Does the Cause of Death Matter? The Effect of Dread, Controllability, Exposure and Latency on the Vsl
Alberini, Anna; Šcasný, Milan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
lives. To date, the VSL used in environmental policy analyses has not been adjusted for age or the cause of death. Air … illnesses, raising the question whether a single VSL should be applied for all of these causes of death. We conducted a conjoint … choice experiment survey in Milan, Italy, to investigate this question. We find that the VSL increases with dread, exposure …
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Residual Risk Accounting: A Pilot Study of the Coastal Sector
Farrow, Scott - Economics Department, University of Maryland-Baltimore … - 2014
Risks continue near the coasts such as flooding, oil spills, deaths and unemployment despite numerous policies to prevent and mitigate their effects. Such policies are typically analyzed in their natural units, such as jobs, and so comparisons are difficult across risk categories. An approach...
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Estimating the Economic Value of Statistical Life in China: A Study of the Willingness to Pay for Cancer Prevention
Wang, Hua; He, Jie - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 9 (2014) 2, pp. 183-215
-specific cancer morbidity and mortality risk statistics; an upper and lower bound of the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL) are then … estimated. The estimated VSL is between 481 and 814 thousand yuan (or 58 and 98 thousand US dollars) at 2000 constant prices …
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Robustness of VSL Values from Contingent Valuation Surveys
Alberini, Anna - 2004
This paper examines factors that may influence the estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life obtained from contingent valuation surveys that elicit the willingness to pay (WTP) for mortality risk reductions. We examine the importance of distributional assumptions, the choice of the welfare...
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