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Is there a meaningful definition of the value of a statistical life?
1Stockholm School of Economics, Box 6501, SE-113 83 Stockholm, Sweden. hepoj@hhs.se
Journal of Health Economics
|January 10, 2001
Abstract:
A definition of the value of a statistical life is derived. This definition has a meaningful interpretation in terms of the monetary value of expected present value utility if consumption is age-independent. In all other cases, empirical estimates of the value of a statistical life are biased estimators of the monetary counterpart to expected present value utility.