The Value of Changes in Life Expectancy

Sherwin Rosen

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1988, vol. 1, issue 3, 285-304

Abstract: Valuation formulas for age-specific mortality risks are derived from life-cycle allocation theory under uncertainty and related to empirical estimates of the value of life. A change in an age-specific mortality risk affects all subsequent survivor functions and reallocates consumption and labor supply over the entire life cycle. The value of eliminating a risk to life at a specific age is the expected present value of consumer surplus from that age forward. Approximate numerical extrapolations from cross-section estimates imply that values decrease rapidly in current age and in the distance between current age and age at risk. Copyright 1988 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Date: 1988
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