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Friday, July 08, 2005

An update of the value of life

Kip Viscusi, an economist at Harvard, has published an new updated report on his ground breaking work on the value of life. He finds:

The value of a statistical (VSL) to be about $7 million for U.S. workers. International evidence often indicates a lower VSL, which is consistent with the lower income levels in less developed countries. Canadian workers have a VSL equal to about $4.2 million.

Click here for the full report

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