Self-protection and value of statistical life estimation

Land Economics

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 100-113

  Shogren, Jason F ^a   Stamland, Tommy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; ECONOMICS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MARKET CONDITIONS; VALUATION;

EID: 17644405398     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.81.1.100     Document Type: Article

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