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Can Risk-Benefit Analysis Provide Consistent Policy Evaluations of Projects Involving Loss of Life?

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  • Blackorby, Charles
  • Donaldson, David

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  • Blackorby, Charles & Donaldson, David, 1986. "Can Risk-Benefit Analysis Provide Consistent Policy Evaluations of Projects Involving Loss of Life?," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 96(383), pages 758-773, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:ecj:econjl:v:96:y:1986:i:383:p:758-73
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    1. Adler, Matthew & Hammitt, James K. & Treich, Nicolas, 2012. "The Social Value of Mortality Risk Reduction: VSL vs. the Social Welfare Function Approach," TSE Working Papers 12-292, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
    2. Adler, Matthew D. & Hammitt, James K. & Treich, Nicolas, 2014. "The social value of mortality risk reduction: VSL versus the social welfare function approach," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 35(C), pages 82-93.
    3. Charles Blackorby & David Donaldson & John A. Weymark, 2008. "Hicksian Surplus Measures of Individual Welfare Change When There is Price and Income Uncertainty," Studies in Choice and Welfare, in: Prasanta K. Pattanaik & Koichi Tadenuma & Yongsheng Xu & Naoki Yoshihara (ed.), Rational Choice and Social Welfare, pages 195-213, Springer.
    4. Elvik, Rune, 2006. "Are individual preferences always a legitimate basis for evaluating the costs and benefits of public policy?: The case of road traffic law enforcement," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 13(5), pages 379-385, September.
    5. L. Robin Keller & Rakesh K. Sarin, 1988. "Equity in Social Risk: Some Empirical Observations," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 8(1), pages 135-146, March.

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