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Adjusting the Value of a Statistical Life for Age and Cohort Effects 7 15 43 113 11 32 102 300
Age Differences in the Value of Statistical Life: Revealed Preference Evidence 7 17 52 110 17 44 145 270
Age Variations in Workers' Value of Statistical Life 3 9 32 363 10 29 116 1,110
Cigarette Taxation and the Social Consequences of Smoking 5 23 84 613 20 82 359 2,494
How Unobservable Productivity Biases the Value of a Statistical Life 0 1 6 65 1 5 23 173
Hyperbolic Discounting of Public Goods 0 1 5 53 1 4 17 152
Labor Market Estimates of the Senior Discount for the Value of Statistical Life 2 2 11 54 7 13 49 225
Life-Cycle Consumption and the Age-Adjusted Value of Life 3 7 18 155 14 34 85 625
National Survey Evidence on Disasters and Relief: Risk Beliefs, Self-Interest, and Compassion 0 2 9 30 2 11 43 114
Organizational Form and Insurance Company Performance: Stocks versus Mutuals 4 9 25 272 18 45 144 1,119
Pinning Down the Value of Statistical Life 4 9 28 130 11 28 90 293
Pinning Down the Value of Statistical Life 0 3 21 52 4 15 67 112
Rational Discounting for Regulatory Analysis 1 2 6 30 1 3 21 107
Regulation of Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks 1 2 20 141 4 11 53 296
Sacrificing Civil Liberties to Reduce Terrorism Risks 2 3 9 9 7 13 34 34
Sorting Models of Labor Mobility, Turnover, and Unemployment 0 1 6 37 1 3 15 189
Specific Information, General Information, and Employment Matches Under Uncertainty 0 0 1 10 2 2 18 185
The Catastrophic Effects of Natural Disasters on Insurance Markets 3 4 12 77 11 23 79 346
The Effects of Tort Reform on Medical Malpractice Insurers' Ultimate Losses 3 5 25 94 8 26 103 375
The Generational Divide in Support for Environmental Policies: European Evidence 2 5 7 39 4 10 25 128
The Impact of Occupational Safety and HealthRegulation, 1973-83 0 0 0 1 2 6 22 106
The Mortality Cost to Smokers 0 5 30 92 4 28 87 210
The Perception and Valuation of the Risks of Climate Change: A Rational and Behavioral Blend 3 3 10 10 4 9 21 21
The Perception and Valuation of the Risks of Climate Change: A Rational and Behavioral Blend 1 5 16 54 2 12 45 177
The Value of a Statistical Life: A Critical Review of Market Estimates throughout the World 10 45 138 829 21 93 303 1,786
Workers' Compensation and Injury Duration: Evidence from a Natural Experiment 3 13 29 123 14 35 104 436
Total Working Papers 64 191 643 3,556 201 616 2,170 11,383


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A Bayesian perspective on biases in risk perception 2 6 18 45 5 13 39 79
A Note on "Lemons" Markets with Quality Certification 0 3 14 52 3 9 37 193
A Theory of Job Shopping: A Bayesian Perspective 1 2 12 30 2 6 32 118
Adaptive Responses to Chemical Labeling: Are Workers Bayesian Decision Makers? 3 5 18 62 7 11 49 163
Adjusting the Value of a Statistical Life for Age and Cohort Effects 3 7 18 18 8 27 66 66
Age Differences in the Value of Statistical Life: Revealed Preference Evidence 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 2
Age Variations in Risk Perceptions and Smoking Decisions 3 10 31 128 7 19 106 518
Alarmist Decisions with Divergent Risk Information 1 2 13 51 2 4 32 171
Alternative Institutional Responses to Aspestos 0 0 0 0 1 4 105 1,148
Alternative approaches to valuing intangible health losses: the evidence for multiple sclerosis1 0 0 4 22 1 1 10 109
An Empirical Assessment of Early Offer Reform for Medical Malpractice 1 1 3 3 1 2 7 7
An Investigation of the Rationality of Consumer Valuations of Multiple Health Risks 0 2 9 49 1 3 20 184
Are Individuals Bayesian Decision Makers? 1 2 8 32 2 7 19 75
Are Risk Regulators Rational? Evidence from Hazardous Waste Cleanup Decisions 1 5 12 54 3 10 27 162
Automobile Seatbelt Usage and the Value of Statistical Life 0 0 0 0 4 14 66 73
Bayesian Decisions with Ambiguous Belief Aversion 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 87
Behavioral Probabilities 2 3 11 57 4 5 23 154
Carcinogen Regulation: Risk Characteristics and the Synthetic Risk Bias 0 0 1 21 2 3 18 125
Cigarette Smokers As Job Risk Takers 0 4 23 85 1 20 73 416
Commonalities in Time and Ambiguity Aversion for Long-Term Risks* 0 1 3 3 0 1 6 6
Conservative versus Mean Risk Assessments: Implications for Superfund Policies 0 0 1 12 1 2 7 54
Consumer Behavior and the Safety Effects of Product Safety Regulation 0 0 0 0 2 7 29 281
Consumer Processing of Hazard Warning Information 0 0 0 1 2 4 14 82
Damages Caps, Insurability, and the Performance of Medical Malpractice Insurance 0 1 2 2 3 9 13 13
Discounting dilemmas: Editors’ introduction 2 3 15 15 3 8 38 38
Discounting environmental health risks: New evidence and policy implications 0 7 19 57 4 19 50 154
Do Smokers Underestimate Risks? 0 3 17 162 5 12 54 495
Do Workers Want OSHA's Ergonomics Regulations? 0 0 2 9 0 1 13 43
Economic Contests: Comparative Reward Schemes 3 7 29 139 4 10 40 341
Economic Foundations of the Current Regulatory Reform Efforts 0 3 16 63 0 4 23 172
Editor's Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 22
Effectiveness of the EPA's Regulatory Enforcement: The Case of Industrial Effluent Standards 0 0 0 2 5 23 90 697
Employment Relationships with Joint Employer and Worker Experimentation 0 0 2 6 0 2 16 90
Energy Taxation as a Policy Instrument to Reduce CO2 Emissions: A Net Benefit Analysis 2 7 24 119 3 15 53 277
Environmental Taxation for Environmental Regulation and Fiscal Policy: An Analysis of a Clinton-Type BTU Tax 0 0 0 0 2 5 14 106
Environmental policy choice under uncertainty 0 0 0 6 0 0 5 27
Environmental policy choice with an uncertain chance of irreversibility 0 1 2 4 2 3 6 18
Estimating discount rates for environmental quality from utility-based choice experiments 1 2 3 3 4 6 12 12
Estimation Of Revealed Probabilities And Utility Functions For Product Safety Decisions 0 1 6 31 0 1 12 126
Estimation of State-Dependent Utility Functions Using Survey Data 3 6 26 104 5 15 66 260
Frameworks for Analyzing the Effects of Risk and Environmental Regulations on Productivity 0 0 0 19 0 1 2 43
Government Action, Biases in Risk Perception, and Insurance Decisions 1 3 14 14 2 8 38 39
Housing price responses to newspaper publicity of hazardous waste sites 1 2 5 26 1 4 23 131
How Do Judges Think about Risk? 0 0 0 2 0 4 39 379
How to value a life 4 11 39 39 10 39 88 88
Imperfect job risk information and optimal workmen's compensation benefits 1 3 7 12 1 3 22 70
Informational Regulation of Consumer Health Risks: An Empirical Evaluation of Hazard Warnings 0 0 4 31 0 5 22 178
Insurance and Individual Incentives in Adaptive Contexts 0 0 3 12 1 1 7 61
Insurance and catastrophes: The changing role of the liability system 0 0 1 1 0 0 5 6
Irreversible environmental investments with uncertain benefit levels 1 1 3 8 1 2 5 17
Job Hazards and Worker Quit Rates: An Analysis of Adaptive Worker Behavior 0 0 8 38 1 3 39 171
Jurors, Judges, and the Mistreatment of Risk by the Courts 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 137
Labor market estimates of the senior discount for the value of statistical life 1 3 11 14 3 7 32 68
Life-Cycle Consumption and the Age-Adjusted Value of Life 1 3 14 52 2 6 50 209
Long-term Environmental Risks 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 48
Measures of Mortality Risks 2 3 8 63 2 9 39 298
Medical Malpractice Insurance in the Wake of Liability Reform 0 0 0 0 1 4 16 460
Models for Estimating Discount Rates for Long-term Health Risks Using Labor Market Data 0 0 0 0 1 7 32 142
Mortality Effects of Regulatory Costs and Policy Evaluation Criteria 1 3 15 49 1 4 53 235
Mortality Risk Perceptions: A Bayesian Reassessment 0 2 4 31 1 6 12 97
National survey evidence on disasters and relief: Risk beliefs, self-interest, and compassion 2 2 12 22 2 3 30 63
Natural disaster risks: An introduction 2 4 20 62 13 21 207 333
Pain and suffering in product liability cases: Systematic compensation or capricious awards? 3 5 27 66 10 26 99 282
Paired comparison and contingent valuation approaches to morbidity risk valuation 2 4 11 26 3 11 31 73
Pricing environmental health risks: survey assessments of risk-risk and risk-dollar trade-offs for chronic bronchitis 12 36 107 165 44 123 394 529
Private Values Of Risk Tradeoffs At Superfund Sites: Housing Market Evidence On Learning About Risk 1 2 16 57 1 6 42 271
Product Liability Litigation with Risk Aversion 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 84
Product Liability and Regulation: Establishing the Appropriate Institutional Division of Labor 0 2 3 13 0 2 11 68
Product Liability, Research and Development, and Innovation 2 4 16 152 2 6 29 397
Product and Occupational Liability 0 0 1 19 0 1 17 97
Promoting Safety through Workers' Compensation: The Efficacy and Net Wage Costs of Injury Insurance 0 2 14 54 0 3 47 299
Prospective Reference Theory: Toward an Explanation of the Paradoxes 0 0 0 0 9 26 129 532
Punitive Damages: How Judges and Juries Perform 0 5 11 13 2 12 30 39
RISK BELIEFS AND SMOKING BEHAVIOR 1 7 21 24 2 15 54 64
Racial Differences in Labor Market Values of a Statistical Life 1 1 3 21 1 1 6 79
Rates of Time Preference and Consumer Valuations of Automobile Safety and Fuel Efficiency 0 0 0 2 6 16 74 702
Rates of time preference and valuations of the duration of life 1 5 29 65 2 11 55 107
Recollection Bias and the Combat of Terrorism 1 2 4 7 2 10 30 41
Reference dependence in iterative choices 1 2 4 4 2 6 23 23
Regulating uncertain health hazards when there is changing risk information 0 0 0 6 0 1 1 18
Risk Equity 0 0 0 0 1 11 37 320
Risk-Risk Analysis 0 0 0 2 11 47 123 588
Sacrificing Civil Liberties to Reduce Terrorism Risks 0 3 19 76 5 21 82 354
Self-Selection, Learning-Induced Quits, and the Optimal Wage Structure 0 1 1 5 0 2 2 26
Sex Differences in Worker Quitting 1 3 14 28 3 7 40 111
Smoking Risks in Spain: Part III--Determinants of Smoking Behavior 0 1 7 27 1 4 27 205
Smoking Status and Public Responses to Ambiguous Scientific Risk Evidence 0 0 0 0 2 5 6 6
Social Insurance for Work and Product Injuries&ast 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 3
Sources of Inconsistency in Societal Responses to Health Risks 0 0 0 12 0 0 1 42
THE INFORMATIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR EFFECTIVE REGULATORY REVIEW: AN ANALYSIS OF THE EPA LEAD STANDARD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
The Challenge of Punitive Damages Mathematics 0 0 0 0 1 7 26 181
The Cost-per-Life-Saved Cutoff for Safety-Enhancing Regulations 0 0 0 0 2 11 94 763
The Courtroom Comes to the Classroom: Estimating Economic Damages as an Instructional Device 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 3
The Denominator Blindness Effect: Accident Frequencies and the Misjudgment of Recklessness 0 0 0 0 2 4 29 296
The Dimensions of the Product Liability Crisis 0 0 0 0 2 6 26 135
The Economic Value of Water Quality 5 10 26 26 8 23 53 53
The Effect of 1980s Tort Reform Legislation on General Liability and Medical Malpractice Insurance 0 0 0 0 2 12 30 236
The Fatality and Injury Costs of Expenditures 0 0 0 1 0 1 17 113
The General-Liability Reform Experiments and the Distribution of Insurance-Market Outcomes 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 138
The Governmental Composition of the Insurance Costs of Smoking 0 0 0 1 0 3 43 928
The Impact of Occupational Safety and Health Regulation 0 5 79 161 4 15 380 684
The Impact of Occupational Safety and Health Regulation, 1973-1983 0 1 11 44 2 4 60 205
The Interaction between Product Liability and Workers' Compensation as Ex Post Remedies for Workplace Injuries 0 0 0 0 2 7 24 257
The Lulling Effect: The Impact of Child-Resistant Packaging on Aspirin and Analgesic Ingestions 2 10 20 81 5 25 60 279
The Market Response to Product Safety Litigation 0 0 0 0 1 7 28 149
The Market Value of Reducing Cancer Risk: Hedonic Housing Prices with Changing Information 0 0 0 0 2 6 11 11
The Performance of Liability Insurance in States with Different Products-Liability Statutes 0 0 0 0 1 4 20 100
The Quantity-Adjusted Value of Life 0 0 0 0 9 20 48 216
The Risks and Rewards of Criminal Activity: A Comprehensive Test of Criminal Deterrence 0 2 11 98 2 5 49 420
The Risky Business of Insurance Pricing 0 0 0 0 0 4 9 94
The Value of Life: Estimates with Risks by Occupation and Industry 2 21 71 208 4 41 189 783
The Value of Risks to Life and Health 18 39 122 700 27 60 193 1,312
The Value of a Statistical Life: A Critical Review of Market Estimates throughout the World 12 48 159 733 32 118 436 1,870
The catastrophic effects of natural disasters on insurance markets 1 4 24 58 3 19 104 295
The coase theorem in rent-seeking society 0 1 3 47 1 4 11 93
The mortality cost to smokers 0 3 11 11 2 17 51 51
Tort Liability Litigation Costs for Commercial Claims 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2
Utility Functions That Depend on Health Status: Estimates and Economic Implications 2 16 58 240 4 25 129 645
Value of a Statistical Life: Relative Position vs. Relative Age 1 1 7 20 3 5 22 78
Valuing risks of death from terrorism and natural disasters 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Voter Preferences and State Regulation of Smoking 0 1 2 23 0 4 16 154
Wealth Effects and Earnings Premiums for Job Hazards 0 0 10 23 0 0 22 73
Worker learning and compensating differentials 0 0 0 0 1 1 8 16
Workers' Compensation and Injury Duration: Evidence from a Natural Experiment 5 21 64 289 14 44 160 655
Workers' Compensation: Wage Effects, Benefit Inadequacies, and the Value of Health Losses 3 5 21 93 4 11 86 456
Total Journal Articles 125 410 1,541 5,647 396 1,343 5,916 27,542


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Calculating Risks?: The Spatial and Political Dimensions of Hazardous Waste Policy 0 0 0 0 6 6 6 6
Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, 4th Edition 0 0 0 0 9 10 10 10
Informational Approaches to Regulation 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2
Total Books 0 0 0 0 17 18 18 18


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Cigarette Taxation and the Social Consequences of Smoking 0 3 3 3 4 8 8 8
Health and Safety Regulation 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Market Incentives for Criminal Behavior 0 2 2 2 0 4 4 4
Organizational Form and Insurance Company Performance: Stocks versus Mutuals 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Quantifying and Valuing Environmental Health Risks 2 10 27 102 7 18 64 273
Regulation of Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks 1 5 16 16 4 14 58 58
The Structure of Uncertainty and the Use of Nontransferable Pensions as a Mobility-Reduction Device 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
Total Chapters 3 20 48 123 16 45 135 344


Statistics updated 2009-07-03