Contingent valuation, transport safety and the value of life /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Boston : Kluwer Academic, c1995.
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

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Other authors / contributors:	Schwab Christe, Nathalie G. Soguel, Nils C.
ISBN:	0792395786 (acid-free paper)
Notes:	Selection of papers presented at a conference held in Oct. 1994 at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Includes bibliographical references.

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.

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