published in: American Economic Review, 2004, 94 (2), 454-460
In this paper we show that omitted variables and publication bias lead to severely biased
estimates of the value of a statistical life. Although our empirical results are obtained in the
context of a study of choices about road safety, we suspect that the same issues plague the
estimation of monetary trade-offs regarding safety in other contexts.
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