Does the Value of a Statistical Life Vary with Age and Health Status? Evidence from the United States and Canada

By Anna Alberini, M. Cropper, Alan Krupnick, N. Simon. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences

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Willingness to Pay to Reduce Mortality Risks: Evidence from a Three-Country Contingent Valuation Study (2006, methodology): “The results are thus similar to those of the earlier Canada and US studies (Krupnick et al., 2002; Alberini et al., 2004).”
Urban Environmental Health and Sensitive Populations: How Much Are the Italians Willing to Pay to Reduce Their Risks? (2007, methodology): “In terms of health status, this sample reports rates of illness that are very similar to those observed in an earlier study in almost all of the same cities (Alberini et al., 2004b).”
The value of a statistical life (2009, unknown): “The effect of health status on VSL is ambiguous, and the empirical evidence suggests that VSL does not vary with health status (Alberini et al., 2004, 2006b; Andersson, 2007; Smith et al., 2004).”
Adoption of safer irrigation technologies and cropping patterns: Evidence from Southern Ghana (2011, background): “(1985) for households in the United Kingdom and Alberini et al. (2004) for United States and Canadian households, have shown that the willingness to pay for safety or mortality risk reduction increases with wealth, while age does not show any statistically significant effect at younger ages.”
Context and the VSL: Evidence from a Stated Preference Study in Italy and the Czech Republic (2011, background): “In Krupnick et al. (2002), and Alberini et al. (2004), for example, only after age 70 are people in Canada and the US found to report a lower WTP (by about 20%- 30%).”
The value of mortality risk reductions in Delhi, India (2006, methodology): “This device was useful in communicating the - 9 - communication tool in other stated preference surveys involving mortality risks (Alberini et al., 2004; Corso, Hammitt and Graham, 2001; Krupnick et al., 2002) and has also been used previously in a developing country context (Melhuish et al., 2005).”
Divergence between individual perceptions and objective indicators of tail risks: Evidence from floodplain residents in New York City (2015, background): “Eliciting a quantitative estimate of the perceived flood probability is a challenge because individuals have, in general, difficulties with probabilistic concepts (e.g., Alberini et al. 2004).”
The Income Elasticity of the Value per Statistical Life: Transferring Estimates between High and Low Income Populations (2011, background): “For example, Corso et al. (2001) find an elasticity of 0.4 in a general population while Alberini et al. (2004) find elasticities ranging from 0.2 to 0.3 in a study focused on individuals over age 40.”
Valuing Mortality Risk Reductions: Progress and Challenges (2011, background): “For example, Alberini et al. (2004) find that mean WTP of U.S. respondents for a reduction in risk of death of 5 in 1,000 over 10 years was approximately 1.6 times the WTP for a risk reduction of 1 in 1,000.”
The Economic Value of Air-Pollution-Related Health Risks in China: A Contingent Valuation Study (2006, background): “For US and Canadian respondents aged 40 and older, Alberini et al. (2004) estimated median and mean VSL as $500,000 to $1.3 million and $1 million to $5 million, respectively.”