Background Risks and the Value of a Statistical Life

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The Income Elasticity of the Value per Statistical Life: Transferring Estimates between High and Low Income Populations (2011, background): “The rationale for discrepancies between VSL income elasticity and financial risk aversion, as well as the reconciliation of these differences, are discussed in Eeckhoudt and Hammitt (2001), Kniesner et al. (2010), Evans and Smith (2010), and Hammitt and Haninger (2010).”
Context and the VSL: Evidence from a Stated Preference Study in Italy and the Czech Republic (2011, background): “Eeckhoudt and Hammitt (2001) consider competing risks and show that if the utility of a bequest at death is positive, then the marginal WTP for reducing one type of risk (i.e., the VSL for that cause of death) depends on the magnitude of the other risks of dying.”
Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Environment: Recent Developments (2006, background): “Eeckhoudt and Hammitt (2001) investigate this issue.”
Valuing Mortality Risk Reductions: Progress and Challenges (2011, background): “Indeed, the income elasticity of WTP should exceed the coefficient of relative risk aversion (Eeckhoudt & Hammitt 2001, Kaplow 2005).”
Risk aversion and religion (2012, unknown): “His work has analyzed the link between risk aversion levels and behavior in the realms of saving (Eeckhoudt and Schlesinger, 2008), health policy (Bui et al., 2005), valuation of life (Eeckhoudt and Hammitt, 2001), and insurance demand (Eeckhoudt et al., 1997), among others.”