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• How to value a life 

  Abstract The tradeoff between money and small risks of death is the value of statistical life (VSL), which has become the standard for assessing...

  Journal of Economics and Finance, 10/01/08 by Viscusi, W Kip · More from publication

• Risk beliefs and smoking behavior 

  We analyze smoking risk beliefs and smoking behavior using individual data from 1997 for the United States and 1998 for Massachusetts. Smokers and...

  Economic Inquiry, 01/01/08 by W. Kip Viscusi · More from publication

• Monetizing the benefits of risk and environmental regulation 

  INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION Should the benefits of risk and environmental regulations be monetized? For economists, this question is not...

  Fordham Urban Law Journal, 05/01/06 by W. Kip Viscusi · More from publication

• Damages caps, insurability, and the performance of medical malpractice insurance 

  ABSTRACT ABSTRACT This article uses the complete property-casualty insurance files of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners from...

  Journal of Risk and Insurance, 03/01/05 by W. Kip Viscusi · More from publication

• TORT REFORM AND INSURANCE MARKETS 

  ABSTRACT Proposed tort reforms have focused on punitive damages and noneconomic damages, each of which pose problems for jury decision making. The...

  Risk Management and Insurance Review, 04/01/04 by Viscusi, W Kip · More from publication

• The value of life: estimates with risks by occupation and industry 

  The worker fatality risk variable constructed for this article uses BLS data on total worker deaths by both occupation and industry over the...

  Economic Inquiry, 01/01/04 by W. Kip Viscusi · More from publication

• The new cigarette paternalism: there are better ways to address smoking than ever-increasing cigarette taxes 

  SMOKING IS BY FAR THE LARGEST SINGLE risk that most people take. Perhaps in part because of that prominence, smoking has been the target of a wide...

  Regulation, 12/22/02 by W. Kip Viscusi · More from publication

• Safety at any price? Following a dramatic expansion of federal health and safety regulation, Americans' gains are uncertain 

  THE 1970S MARKED THE ADVENT OF A major wave of health and safety regulations. Before that time, the standards that we now take for granted were...

  Regulation, 09/22/02 by W. Kip Viscusi · More from publication

• Misuses and proper uses of hedonic values of life in legal contexts.(Hedonic Damages - Ten Years Later) 

  I. Introduction Valuing life has proven to be one of the most controversial areas in economics. By necessity, society must make resource...

  Journal of Forensic Economics, 03/22/00 by Viscusi, W. Kip · More from publication

• Smoking status and public responses to ambiguous scientific risk evidence 

  A study was conducted to determine how cigarette smokers respond to different scientific risk evidence. A market research company surveyed 143...

  Southern Economic Journal, 10/01/99 by W. Kip Viscusi · More from publication