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Age Variations in Workers' Value of Statistical Life [PDF]
This paper develops a life-cycle model in which workers choose both consumption levels and job fatality risks, implying that the effect of age on the value of life is ambiguous.
Joseph E. Aldy, W. Kip Viscusi
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Are Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life Exaggerated? [PDF]
The magnitude of the value of a statistical life (VSL) is critical to the evaluation of many health and safety initiatives. To date, the large and rigorous VSL research literature has not explicitly accommodated publication selectivity bias (i.e., the ...
Hristos Doucouliagos +2 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Hemophilic arthropathy remains the leading morbidity in hemophilia despite modern prophylaxis, and early joint damage may be missed by routine exams. This study explored T2* MRI as a noninvasive biomarker of hemosiderin deposition in pediatric hemophilia.
Jessica Garcia +6 more
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Changes in the Value of Life: 1940-1980 [PDF]
We present the first nation wide value of life estimates for the United States at more than one point in time. Our estimates are for every ten years between 1940 and 1980, a period when declines in fatal accident rates were historically unprecedented ...
Matthew E. Kahn, Dora L. Costa
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Design to life cycle by value-oriented life cycle costing [PDF]
, 2022 S.461-466Industrial products basically have to satisfy the customers' wants and needs as a basic input as well as technical and ecological requirements while providing maximum economic benefit throughout the life cycle.
Westkämper, Engelbert, Janz, Danina
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The Monetary Value of Human Life Losses Associated with COVID-19 in Africa: A Human Capital Approach
EconomiesBackground: By 30 June 2021, the 54 African sovereign nations had reported 5,465,790 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases (including 142,171 deaths). This study aimed to estimate the monetary value of human life losses, indirect and direct costs, and the ...
Joses Muthuri Kirigia, Germano Mwabu
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Anthracycline‐related cardiac remodeling precedes heart failure in childhood cancer survivors. The objectives of this study were to determine the relationships between patient‐specific factors, moderate‐to‐vigorous physical activity (MVPA), and cardiac remodeling.
Hari K. Narayan +15 more
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ASSIST: Refinement of a Benefits Navigator Intervention Among Low‐Income Pediatric Oncology Families
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Children with cancer living in poverty experience worse survival and quality of life. Interventions connecting low‐income families to benefits (e.g., Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program [SNAP] improve health outcomes; yet nearly 50% of SNAP‐eligible pediatric oncology families are unenrolled.
Puja J. Umaretiya +11 more
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Labor Market Estimates of the Senior Discount for the Value of Statistical Life [PDF]
This article develops the first measures of age-industry job risks to examine the age variations in the value of statistical life. Because of the greater risk vulnerability of older workers, they face flatter wage-risk gradients than younger workers ...
Aldy, Joseph, Viscusi, W. Kip
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is one of the most treatable forms of paediatric cancer; however, there is a substantial burden of treatment‐related toxicities (TRTs). In addition, the long‐term changes in children's health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) due to toxic treatments are not well understood.
Clare Ghows +19 more
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