Measuring How Risk Tradeoffs Adjust With Income

Mary F. Evans, V. Kerry Smith

NBER Working Paper No. 15372
Issued in September 2009

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provided funding for this research under STAR grant RD-83159502-0. The research has not been subjected to EPA review and therefore does not necessarily reflect the views of the Agency, and no official endorsement should be inferred.Thanks are due Jon Valentine for his assistance in the preparation of this manuscript. Josh Abbott, Kelly Maguire, J.R. DeShazo, and participants at the 2008 Southern Economic Association Meetings and the Vanderilt University Law School Conference on the Heterogeneity in the Value of Statistical Life provided helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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