The value of a statistical life

A Handbook of Transport Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 396-424

  Andersson, Henrik ^a   Treich, Nicolas ^a  

^a TOULOUSE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

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