Note to Correspondents: New RFF Paper on Willingness to Pay for Mortality Risk Reduction

Date

July 20, 2015

News Type

Press Release

Note to Correspondents: New RFF Paper on Willingness to Pay for Mortality Risk Reduction

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 23, 2014
CONTACT: Dave Cohen, 202.328.5168, [email protected]

Heterogeneity in the Value of Life
by
Joseph E. Aldy, Harvard University; Visiting Fellow at Resources for the Future; National Bureau of Economic Research; and Seamus J. Smyth, Caxton Associates

An effort to "characterize the willingness to pay for mortality risk reduction"

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