Robustness of VSL Values from Contingent Valuation Surveys

Anna Alberini

No 280838, National Center for Environmental Economics-NCEE Working Papers from United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Abstract: This paper examines factors that may influence the estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life obtained from contingent valuation surveys that elicit the willingness to pay (WTP) for mortality risk reductions. We examine the importance of distributional assumptions, the choice of the welfare statistics of interest, the procedure for computing them, outliers, undesirable response effects, and internal validity of the WTP responses. We illustrate the importance of these factors using dichotomous-choice and open-ended WTP data from four recent contingent valuation surveys.

Keywords: Health Economics and Policy; Risk and Uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 58
Date: 2005-01
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.280838

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