on health status. The VSL varies with age, income, the cause of death (e.g., cancer), and other factors. This chapter … also examines the risk-risk analysis approach and provides a comprehensive survey of the use of VSL by government agencies. …The value of risks to life as measured by the risk-money trade-off plays a fundamental role in economic analyses of …

respondents. We examine how homeowners in the United Kingdom and Italy value mortality risk reductions by asking them to choose … reduction in the risk of dying from cancer more than from other causes, but UK respondents do not hold such a premium. We also … among hypothetical variants of their home that differ in terms of mortality risks from air pollution and price. To our …

pollution regulations, however, are linked to reductions in the risk of dying for cancer, heart disease, and respiratory …—are strongly statistically significant. All else the same, the fact that the cause of the death is “cancer” results in a VSL that … question whether using VSL figures based on private risk reduction, which is usually recommended to avoid double …