Do life-saving regulations save lives ?
Gerdtham, Ulf LU
and Johannesson, M
(2002)
In Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
24(3).
p.231-249
- Abstract
- Life-saving regulations may be counter-productive since they have an indirect mortality effect through the reduction in disposable income. This paper estimates the effect of income on mortality, controlling for the initial health status and a host of personal characteristics. The analysis is based on a random sample of the adult Swedish population of over 40,000 individuals followed up for 10-17 years. The income loss that will induce an expected fatality is estimated to be $6.8 million when the costs are borne equally among all adults, $8.4 million when the costs are borne proportionally to income and $9.8 million when the costs are borne progressively to income.
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- author
- Gerdtham, Ulf
LU
and Johannesson, M
- organization
- publishing date
- 2002
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- risk-risk analysis, mortality, duration models, income, regulations
- in
- Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
- volume
- 24
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 231 - 249
- publisher
- Springer
- external identifiers
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- wos:000175854200003
- scopus:0036274139
- ISSN
- 1573-0476
- DOI
- 10.1023/A:1015635518824
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 1b45d3c8-84bb-4b6f-8126-b32081bb3f75 (old id 893354)
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- 2016-04-01 11:58:08
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