Euthanizing the Value of a Statistical Life
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Euthanizing the Value of a Statistical Life
Many policies and regulations are intended to protect human life and health. To analyze the benefits and costs of these measures, we must address society’s willingness to pay (WTP) for a variety of health-risk reductions. By convention, economists report estimates of this WTP in terms of a unit called a “statistical life.”1 While some economists may not be particularly familiar with this termin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Review of Environmental Economics and Policy
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1750-6816,1750-6824
DOI: 10.1093/reep/req010