The Value of Statistical Life and the Economics of Landmine Clearance in Developing Countries

This paper presents estimates of the value of statistical life (VSL) in rural Thailand using the contingent-valuation (CV) method. These estimates are applied to an economic analysis of landmine clearance. The estimated VSL of US$250 000 suggests that the value of lives saved from landmine clearance...

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Autores principales: Gibson, John, Barns, Sandra, Cameron, Michael, Lim, Steven, Scrimgeour, Frank, Tressler, John
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7117019/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32287932
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2006.05.003
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author Gibson, John
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spelling pubmed-71170192020-04-02 The Value of Statistical Life and the Economics of Landmine Clearance in Developing Countries Gibson, John Barns, Sandra Cameron, Michael Lim, Steven Scrimgeour, Frank Tressler, John World Dev Article This paper presents estimates of the value of statistical life (VSL) in rural Thailand using the contingent-valuation (CV) method. These estimates are applied to an economic analysis of landmine clearance. The estimated VSL of US$250 000 suggests that the value of lives saved from landmine clearance is at least an order of magnitude greater than the values used in existing studies. Elsevier Ltd. 2007-03 2007-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7117019/ /pubmed/32287932 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2006.05.003 Text en Copyright © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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