Valuing Mortality Risk: Theory and Practice†

By James K Hammitt. 2000

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Valuing Mortality Risk Reductions: Progress and Challenges (2011, background): “19 Hammitt and Graham (1999) found that 39 percent of telephone survey respondents did not correctly answer which is the larger number: 1 in 10,000 or 5 in 100,000.”
A Meta-Analysis of the Willingness to Pay for Reductions in Pesticide Risk Exposure (2004, unknown): “…decreases of health risks, under the conventional assumption that the estimated marginal valuation of a risk decline increases with an increase in the baseline risk level, with the absolute size of the risk reduction, and with the baseline income (Grossman, 1972; Jones- Lee, 1976; Hammitt, 2000).”
Discounting and the environment should current impacts be weighted differently than impacts harming future generations? (2003, methodology): “These techniques have frequently been used in policymaking [12,40,52-54,57] and they have widely been dis-”
The value of mortality risk reductions in Delhi, India (2006, background): “In an experiment to test the effectiveness of various visual aids Corso, Hammitt and Graham (2001) find that the use of visual aids to demonstrate probability in contingent valuation studies improves validity as compared to a situation where no visual aids are used.”
Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Environment: Recent Developments (2006, methodology): “Hammitt (2000) points out that survival in bad health may limit the individual’s ability to increase utility by spending money – the marginal utility of wealth may be lower for survival in bad health than in good health.”
The Income Elasticity of the Value per Statistical Life: Transferring Estimates between High and Low Income Populations (2011, methodology): “…and Hammitt and Liu (2004) consider the value of future (latent) risk reductions, Johansson (2002) assesses the 17 The standard one-period model includes a bequest motive, in which case the utility conditional on dying depends on the consumption level (Drèze 1962, Jones-Lee 1974, Hammitt 2000).”
The value of a statistical life (2009, unknown): “…preferences for small mortality risk reductions is that WTP is nearproportional (increasing and slightly concave) to the size of the risk reduction (Hammitt, 2000a).28 Corso et al. (2001) distinguish between weak and strong scale sensitivity, where weak and strong refer to an increasing and…”