Risk-Taking Activities and Heterogeneity of Job-Risk Tradeoffs

Joni Hersch and Todd S Pickton

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1995, vol. 11, issue 3, 205-17

Abstract: Using data from a large national sample, this article examines how individual differences in risk attitudes affect wage-risk tradeoffs. Smoking and seat belt use are used as proxies for individual willingness to bear risk. Workers who by their behavior indicate a high value of safety - e.g., nonsmokers and seat belt wearers - receive a higher compensating differential per unit of job risk than do workers who engage in either one of the risky behaviors. For the overall sample, the implicit value of a lost workday injury is $79,632. This value ranges from $54,878 for smokers who do not wear a seat belt, to $102,552 for nonsmokers who wear a seat belt. Copyright 1995 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Date: 1995
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