What Determines the Value of Life: A Meta‐Analysis

By J. Mrózek, Laura O. Taylor. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• Valuing water quality improvements in the United States using meta-analysis: Is the glass half-full or half-empty for national policy analysis? (2007, background): “…and sample population (but, for example, using a different WTP estimation method).14 Failing to account for this feature would effectively allow publications with more reported values of this type to exert a disproportionate influence on the overall statistical results (Mrozek and Taylor, 2002).”
• The Value of a Statistical Life: A Critical Review of Market Estimates Throughout the World (2003, unknown): “Mrozek and Taylor (2002) reported results from four specification models.”
• Valuing Mortality Risk Reductions: Progress and Challenges (2011, methodology): “The metaregressions conducted by Miller (2000), Mrozek & Taylor (2002), and Viscusi & Aldy (2003) explain variation in VSL estimates across studies as a function of study and population characteristics.”
• Updating the Economic Impacts of the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program (2005, background): “From a meta-analysis of 33 studies, Mrozek and Taylor (2002) estimate the value of a statistical life at $1.”
• Is private production of public services cheaper than public production? A meta-regression analysis of solid waste and water services (2010, background): “life ( Mrozek & Taylor, 2002 ), the effect of immigration on wages (Longhi, Nijkamp, & Poot, 2005),”
• Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Environment: Recent Developments (2006, background): “This “risk loving” effect has been noted in other occupational studies as well (for a summary, see Hammitt, 2002).”
• The Economic Value of Mangroves: A Meta-Analysis (2012, methodology): “We employ a method commonly used in the literature [29,58,59], giving each study the same weight by assigning each observation a weight equal to the inverse of the number of observations included in that study [60].”