Willingness to pay for improving fatality risks and asthma symptoms: Values for children and adults of all ages

Resource and Energy Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 410-425

  Blomquist, Glenn C ^a   Dickie, Mark ^b   O'Conor, Richard M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Asthma; Mortality risks; Risk risk tradeoff; Senior discount; Value of children's health; Value of statistical life; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; MORTALITY RISK; SENIOR DISCOUNT; VALUE OF CHILDREN'S HEALTH; VALUE OF STATISTICAL LIFE; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

DISEASES; ECONOMICS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; SURVEYS;

HEALTH RISKS;

ADULT; AGE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CONTINGENT VALUATION; MORTALITY RISK; SYMPTOM; TRADE-OFF; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 79952620481     PISSN: 09287655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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