Measuring the Value of a Statistical Life: Problems and Prospects

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Estimating the willingness-to-pay and value of risk reduction for car occupants in the road environment (2009, background): “The HC approach rests on accounting principles: the benefit of avoiding a premature death is given by the present value of the income flow the economy could lose in that case ( Ashenfelter 2006 ).”
Working Paper: The Fragmentation of Cities and its Decline: Global Evidence of Sprawl, 1990-2000 (2009, unknown): “The HC approach rests on accounting principles: the benefit of avoiding a premature death is given by the present value of the income flow the economy could lose in that case (Ashenfelter 2006).”
The Value of a Statistical Life: Evidence from Panel Data (2012, methodology): “Other concerns are over the potential endogeneity of the job risk measure (Ashenfelter and Greenstone 2004a) and possible state dependence in wages (MaCurdy 2007). Here we will exploit the capabilities of a very refined risk measure defined over time and by occupation and industry, coupled with pane”