An overview of Value of Statistical Life Estimations- Transportation Perspective
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Keywords
Value of statistical life; Transportation; Health-related costs of travel; Social cost benefit analysis;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- A1 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics
- E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
- H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
- H7 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- O22 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Project Analysis
- R1 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics
- R4 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics
- R48 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics - - - Government Pricing and Policy
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CIS-2025-01-20 (Confederation of Independent States)
- NEP-TRE-2025-01-20 (Transport Economics)
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