Contingent valuation, transport safety and the value of life /
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| Imprint: | Boston : Kluwer Academic, c1995. |
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| Description: | viii, 193 p. : graphs ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in risk and uncertainty |
| Subject: | Contingent valuation. Traffic safety -- Valuation. Life -- Valuation. Contingent valuation. Life -- Valuation. Traffic safety -- Valuation. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1756132 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction / Nils C. Soguel
- 2. The Valuation of Human Costs by the Contingent Method: The Swiss Experience / Nathalie G. Schwab Christe
- 3. Assessing the Value of Traffic Safety Using the Contingent Valuation Technique: The Danish Survey / Kristian Kidholm
- 4. Valuing the Benefits of Reducing the Risk of Non-fatal Road Injuries: The Swedish Experience / Ulf Persson, Anna Lugner Norinder and Marianne Svensson
- 5. Reference Values for Human Life: An Econometric Analysis of a Contingent Valuation in France / Brigitte Desaigues and Ari Rabl
- 6. Why Did Two Theoretically Equivalent Methods Produce Two Very Different Values? / Michael W. Jones-Lee, Graham Loomes and Angela Robinson
- 7. Are Preferences for Safety too Imprecise for Contingent Valuation? / W. Richard Dubourg
- 8. Preference-based Values of Safety for Public Transport Modes / Michael W. Jones-Lee and Graham Loomes
- 9. The Automobile Risk Metric for Valuing Health Risks / W. Kip Viscusi.