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Measuring the value of a statistical life : problems and prospects

Ashenfelter, Orley (contributor) - 2006

Tradeoffs between monetary wealth and fatal safety risks are summarized in the value of a statistical life (VSL), a measure that is widely used for the evaluation of public policies in medicine, the environment, and transportation safety. This paper demonstrates the widespread use of this...

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Measuring the Value of a Statistical Life : Problems and Prospects

Ashenfelter, Orley - 2006

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'Regulating Labor Disputes in the Police Services : Legal & Practical Perspectives from Ontario and British Columbia, Canada'

Carabetta, Giuseppe - 2021

Ontario and British Columbia, Canada, have not seen a police strike in living memory. The reason for this is the … bargaining referred to a panel of arbitrators who assess submissions in light of statutory criteria. Police officers, and the … for police and emergency workers and the community they serve, but the means of getting there have soured relations and …

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Fractured Bonds : Policing Whiteness and Womanhood Through Race-Based Marriage Annulments

Walker, Bela August - 2010

In the hundred years before the United States Supreme Court declared miscegenation statutes unconstitutional in Loving v. Virginia, state courts decided thirteen recorded race-based annulment cases. This article presents a unified analysis of all race based annulment cases for the first time....

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Estimating the Value of a Statistical Life : The Importance of Omitted Variables and Publication Bias

Ashenfelter, Orley; Greenstone, Michael - 2005

that the same issues plague the estimation of monetary trade-offs regarding safety in other contexts …

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Using Terror Alert Levels to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime

Klick, Jonathan; Tabarrok, Alexander T. - 2009

We argue that changes in the terror alert level set by the Department of Homeland Security provide a shock to police … areas of Washington, D.C. This provides strong evidence of the causal effect of police on crime and suggests a research …

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Using Terror Alert Levels to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime

Klick, Jonathan; Tabarrok, Alexander T. - 2009

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Infrastructure Costs

Brooks, Leah - 2020

how much physical output each dollar of spending yields, we know surprisingly little about these costs across time and … cost determinants. Several common explanations for rising costs, such as increases in per-unit labor or materials prices …

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Squatting as a Transition Problem in South Africa

Spindler, Zane A.; Nathan, Cedric D. - 2002

This paper applies principles of transition to land tenure and squatting in South Africa. Political transition in South Africa reassigned political property rights, thereby contriving contestable, rentseeking incentives for squatting as a means to privatise land and redistribute wealth....

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Assessing the Role of Context in Traffic Light Violations

Carnis, Laurent; Kemel, Emmanuel - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 4, pp. 3386-3393

In France the struggle against red light running behaviour is a government priority for reducing road accidents and fatalities. The objective of this study is to measure the frequency of red light runnings and assess the factors impacting these behaviours. Pneumatic counters were used to measure...

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