locus we discuss imply the so-called value of a statistical life (VSL) that is useful as the benefit value in a cost … dimensions of heterogeneity in VSL, including by age and consumption plans, the latent trait that affects wages and job safety …

public policy implications: the econometric properties of estimates of the value of statistical life (VSL) and the wide range …

The considerable literature on the value of a statistical life (VSL) documents the wage-mortality risk tradeoffs for …. Because of the longer life expectancy for children, there have been proposals to add a premium to their VSL, which would … generate an inconsistency with revealed preference estimates of the VSL trajectory over the life cycle. The shorter life …

or operational guidelines (equality of rights, VSL, QALY, ...) that have been used in the Western world over the last …

statistical life (VSL) and relative severity/injury estimates from the Department of Transportation (DOT), we estimate an overall … is almost 40% higher than the total valuation of $1.6 trillion (using about $11 million VSL from the DOT) for all …