Saving Lives in the Present Versus Saving Lives in the Future - Is There a Framing Effect?

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 167-176

  Johannesson, Magnus ^a   Johansson, Per Olov ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Discount rate; Framing; Future health benefits; Lives saved

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION TECHNICS; EVALUATION; FORECASTING; HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MORTALITY--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION FORECAST; RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; WORLD;

DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; ESTIMATION TECHNICS; EVALUATION; HEALTH; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION FORECAST; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; WORLD;

DEMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDIES; FORECASTING; HEALTH; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS;

EID: 0031282866     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007786418821     Document Type: Article

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