Death by Regulation: How Regulations Can Increase Mortality Risk

James Broughel and W Viscusi

No 6864, Working Papers from George Mason University, Mercatus Center

Abstract: This paper updates the cost-per-life-saved cutoff, which is a cost-effectiveness threshold for life-saving regulations, whereby regulations costing more per life saved than this threshold level are expected to increase mortality risk on net. Two competing

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Date: 2017-11-30
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