The value of mortality risk reduction is an important component of the benefits of
environmental policies. In recent years, the number, scope, and quality of valuation studies …

Situations in which risk is at least partly a matter of choice provide opportunities to analyze
behavior and estimate the willingness to pay for small changes in mortality risks. Individuals …

This chapter provides an introduction to Travel Cost Models used to estimate recreation
demand and value recreational uses of the environment such as fishing, rock climbing …

This study employs the hedonic property price method to examine the effects of flood hazard
on coastal property values. We utilize Geographic Information System data on National …

To resolve the theoretical ambiguity in the effect of age on the value of statistical life (VSL),
this article uses a novel, age-dependent fatal risk measure to estimate age-specific hedonic …

The Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Hot Weather-Health Watch/Warning System was initiated in
1995 to alert the city's population to take precautionary actions when hot weather posed …

Environmental and Resource Valuation with Revealed Preferences: A Theoretical Guide to
Empirical Models provides a systematic review of those economic approaches for valuing …

Revealed preference evidence, especially based on wage-risk tradeoffs in the labor market,
provides the primary empirical basis for analyses of the value of statistical life (VSL). This …

This article contributes to existing explanations of political participation by proposing that
citizens' attitudes towards risk predict participation. I argue that people who are risk …

In this article, we examine the effect of citizens' risk orientations on policy choices that are
framed in various ways. We introduce an original risk orientations scale and test for the …