Valuing Changes in Mortality Risk: Lives Saved Versus Life Years Saved

By James K Hammitt. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions

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Citations in the corpus

• The Income Elasticity of the Value per Statistical Life: Transferring Estimates between High and Low Income Populations (2011, background): “More recent work introduces additional factors that influence the relationship between the VSL and age (e.g., Hammitt 2007, Aldy and Viscusi 2007, and Krupnick 2007).”
• The value of a statistical life (2009, unknown): “This conversion relies on the assumption that VSL declines with age (Hammitt, 2007). positive effect on the future flow of incomes and from reduced health care expenditures (the wealth effect).”