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Autor:
Rachel E. Dalafave, W. Kip Viscusi
Publikováno v:
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 66:109-139
Autor:
W. Kip Viscusi
Publikováno v:
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 60:259-279
New national survey evidence on electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) risk beliefs indicates that people substantially overestimate the health risks posed by e-cigarettes, both in absolute terms and relative to conventional cigarette risk beliefs. Perce
Autor:
W. Kip Viscusi
Publikováno v:
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 58:101-119
This symposium issue of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty addresses wide-ranging policy issues pertaining to risk regulation and the economic underpinnings of these efforts. One such intervention consists of policies to address informational market
Autor:
W. Kip Viscusi
Publikováno v:
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 58:143-166
This article reviews economic evidence on health-dependent utility functions and presents new estimates of utility functions for cancer. Estimates of health-dependent utility functions have found that mild adverse health impacts can be treated as mon
Autor:
W. Kip Viscusi, Scott DeAngelis
Publikováno v:
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 57:225-252
This article provides an experimental analysis of two-armed bandit problems that have a different structure in which the first unsuccessful outcome leads to termination of the game. It differs from a conventional two-armed bandit problem in that ther
Autor:
W. Kip Viscusi
Publikováno v:
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
Policies to address the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) require a balancing of the health risk reductions and the costs of economic dislocations. Application of the value of a statistical life (VSL) to monetize COVID-19 deaths produces a U.S. mor
Autor:
W. Kip Viscusi, Clayton J. Masterman
Publikováno v:
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 54:103-128
U.S. labor market estimates of the value of a statistical life (VSL) were the first revealed preference estimates of the VSL in the literature and continue to constitute the majority of such market estimates. The VSL estimates in U.S. studies consequ
Publikováno v:
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 48:187-205
Our research clarifies the conceptual linkages among willingness to pay for additional safety, willingness to accept less safety, and the value of a statistical life (VSL). We present econometric estimates using panel data to analyze the VSL levels a
Autor:
W. Kip Viscusi, Joel Huber
Publikováno v:
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 44:19-44
The gap between willingness-to-pay (WTP) and willingness-to-accept (WTA) benefit values typifies situations in which reference points — and direction of movement from reference points — are consequential. Why WTA-WTP discrepancies arise is not we
Autor:
W. Kip Viscusi
Publikováno v:
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 40:1-13
The refinement in worker fatality risk data used in hedonic wage studies and evidence from new stated preference studies have facilitated the exploration of the heterogeneity of the value of statistical life (VSL). Although the median VSL estimate fo