Are Poor People Worth Less Than Rich People? Disaggregating the Value of Statistical Lives
Preprint
- 1 January 2004
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
Each government agency uses a uniform figure to measure the value of a statistical life. This is a serious mistake. The very theory that underlies current practKeywords
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