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Is the cure worse than the disease? : county-level evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Kaushal, Neeraj; Muchow, … - 2020

Using county-level data on COVID-19 mortality and infections, along with county-level information on the adoption of … mortality. Our estimates suggest that advancing the date of NPI adoption by one day lowers the COVID-19 death rate by 2 … lower non-COVID mortality, suggesting that these measures slowed contagion and the pace at which the healthcare system might …

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A Few Variables Capture over 70% of State-Level Variance in U.S. COVID Deaths

Sill, Joe - 2021

A U.S. state-level analysis of factors associated with COVID-19 deaths reveals inequality (as defined by the Gini coefficient) to be far and away the strongest single-variable predictor, capturing 40% of vari ance in COVID deaths and 49% of variance in all-cause excess deaths since the start of...

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Communications technology and terrorism

Mahmood, Rafat; Jetter, Michael - 2018

By facilitating the flow of information in society, communications technology (CT; e.g., newspapers, radio, television, the internet) can help terrorists to (i) spread their message, (ii) recruit followers, and (iii) coordinate among group members. However, CT also facilitates monitoring and...

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Communications Technology and Terrorism

Mahmood, Rafat - 2020

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The Fatality and Morbidity Components of the Value of Statistical Life

Gentry, Elissa Philip - 2016

. This article analyzes fatality risks accompanied by morbidity effects of different duration to disentangle the mortality …

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Chapter 7. The Value of Individual and Societal Risks to Life and Health

Kip Viscusi, W. - In: Handbook of the economics of risk and uncertainty : volume 1, (pp. 385-452). 2014

The value of risks to life as measured by the risk-money trade-off plays a fundamental role in economic analyses of health and safety risks and serves as the principal benefit measure for government risk regulation policies. The hedonic models that have been employed to generate empirical...

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Estimating the Life Expectancy and Value of Statistical Life (VSL) Losses from COVID-19 Infections in the United States

Wilson, Linus - 2020

Americans aged sixty or older stand to lose 153 to 222 days of life expectancy from contracting COVID-19. Over 90 percent of the U.S. population was under stay at home orders by April 2020. These social distancing measures to slow the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 or novel coronavirus have led to...

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Mortality Risks and Life Expectancy Losses from COVID-19 Infections by Age for the United States

Wilson, Linus - 2021

We look at COVID-19 mortality and expected life expectancy risks by age prior to the development of pharmaceutical … treatments for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. A COVID-19 infection more than doubled the annual mortality risks for Americans over sixty …

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Assessing Whether There Is a Cancer Premium for the Value of a Statistical Life

Viscusi, W. Kip - 2012

This article estimates whether there is a cancer risk premium for the value of a statistical life (VSL) using stated preference valuations of cancer risks for a large, nationally representative U.S. sample. The present value of an expected cancer case that occurs after a one decade latency...

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The Income Elasticity of Global Values of a Statistical Life : Stated Preference Evidence

Masterman, Clayton - 2018

Examination of estimates of the income elasticity of the value of a statistical life based on international stated preference studies yields an average between 0.94 and 1.05 overall and 0.65 and 0.80 after controlling for covariates. Quantile regression estimates indicate that the income...

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