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According to Wikipedia, William Viscusi is an American economist whose primary fields of research are the economics of risk and uncertainty, risk and environmental regulation, behavioral economics, and law and economics. Viscusi is the University Distinguished Professor of Law, Economics, and Management at Vanderbilt Law School where he and his wife, Joni Hersch, are the founders and co-directors of the Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics. Prior to his appointment at Vanderbilt, Viscusi was the first John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics at Harvard Law School and Director of the Harvard Program on Empirical Legal Studies. Viscusi is the author of Pricing Lives: Guideposts for a Safer Society.

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The Value of a Statistical Life: A Critical Review of Market Estimates Throughout the World (2003) (2083)
The value of risks to life and health (1993) (1248)
Economics of regulation and antitrust (1992) (843)
Gamma Discounting (2001) (637)
Utility Functions That Depend on Health Status: Estimates and Economic Implications (1990) (564)
Fatal Tradeoffs: Public and Private Responsibilities for Risk (1992) (465)
Do Smokers Underestimate Risks? (1990) (464)
Coda : Creativity and Improvisation in Jazzand Organizations: Implications Fororganizational Learning (1998) (443)
Economic Contests: Comparative Reward Schemes (1984) (409)
Effectiveness of the EPA's Regulatory Enforcement: The Case of Industrial Effluent Standards (1990) (407)
Prospective reference theory: Toward an explanation of the paradoxes (1989) (387)
Pricing environmental health risks: survey assessments of risk-risk and risk-dollar trade-offs for chronic bronchitis☆ (1991) (377)
Smoking: Making the Risky Decision (1992) (332)
An Investigation of the Rationality of Consumer Valuations of Multiple Health Risks (1987) (326)
Adjusting the Value of a Statistical Life for Age and Cohort Effects (2008) (315)
Workers&Apos; Compensation and Injury Duration: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (1990) (298)
Adaptive Responses to Chemical Labeling: Are Workers Bayesian Decision Makers? (1984) (285)
Private Values of Risk Tradeoffs at Superfund Sites: Housing Market Evidence on Learning about Risk (2000) (280)
The Quantity-Adjusted Value of Life (1988) (265)
The Value of Life: Estimates with Risks by Occupation and Industry (2003) (245)
The Impact of Occupational Safety and Health Regulation (1979) (241)
Age Differences in the Value of Statistical Life: Revealed Preference Evidence (2007) (234)
Employment Hazards: An Investigation of Market Performance (1979) (233)
Rates of Time Preference and Consumer Valuations of Automobile Safety and Fuel Efficiency (1995) (230)
Rational Risk Policy (1998) (227)
A Note on "Lemons" Markets with Quality Certification (1978) (226)
Cigarette Smokers as Job Risk Takers (2000) (215)
Rates of time preference and valuations of the duration of life (1989) (206)
Estimation Of State-Dependent Utility Functions Using Survey Data (1991) (205)
Wealth Effects and Earnings Premiums for Job Hazards (1978) (201)
Income Elasticities and Global Values of a Statistical Life (2017) (198)
Hopes and Fears: the Conflicting Effects of Risk Ambiguity (1999) (192)
Risk within reason. (1990) (191)
Age Variations in Risk Perceptions and Smoking Decisions (1991) (185)
Are Risk Regulators Rational? Evidence from Hazardous Waste Cleanup Decisions (1999) (177)
Promoting Recycling: Private Values, Social Norms, and Economic Incentives (2010) (173)
Sex Differences in Worker Quitting (1980) (172)
Alarmist Decisions with Divergent Risk Information (1997) (169)
Risk by Choice: Regulating Health and Safety in the Workplace (1983) (168)
The Perception and Valuation of the Risks of Climate Change: A Rational and Behavioral Blend (2005) (164)
Cigarette Taxation and the Social Consequences of Smoking (1994) (162)
Alternative approaches to valuing intangible health losses: the evidence for multiple sclerosis. (1998) (160)
The Value of a Statistical Life: Evidence from Panel Data (2010) (159)
Sacrificing Civil Liberties to Reduce Terrorism Risks (2003) (154)
Cigarette Smoking, Seatbelt Use, and Differences in Wage-Risk Tradeoffs (1990) (142)
Policy relevant heterogeneity in the value of statistical life: New evidence from panel data quantile regressions (2009) (141)
Paired comparison and contingent valuation approaches to morbidity risk valuation (1988) (141)
The Impact of Occupational Safety and HealthRegulation, 1973-83 (1986) (140)
Informational approaches to regulation (1992) (139)
Doubling the Estimated Value of Life: Results Using New Occupational Fatality Data (1988) (138)
Job Hazards and Worker Quit Rates: An Analysis of Adaptive Worker Behavior (1979) (137)
Learning about Risk: Consumer and Worker Responses to Hazard Information (1987) (136)
Calculating Risks? : The Spatial and Political Dimensions of Hazardous Waste Policy (1999) (135)
Informational regulation of consumer health risks: an empirical evaluation of hazard warnings (1986) (135)
Workers' Compensation: Wage Effects, Benefit Inadequacies, and the Value of Health Losses (1987) (134)
Energy Taxation as a Policy Instrument to Reduce CO2 Emissions: A Net Benefit Analysis (1995) (132)
Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, 4th Edition (2000) (132)
Altruistic and private valuations of risk reduction (1988) (123)
The Market Value of Reducing Cancer Risk: Hedonic Housing Prices with Changing Information (2002) (121)
The Economic Value of Water Quality (2008) (117)
Discounting environmental health risks: New evidence and policy implications (1990) (116)
Damages Caps, Insurability, and the Performance of Medical Malpractice Insurance (2005) (114)
A Bayesian perspective on biases in risk perception (1985) (108)
Estimating discount rates for environmental quality from utility-based choice experiments (2008) (105)
Gender Differences in Promotions and Wages (1996) (103)
Mortality Effects of Regulatory Costs and Policy Evaluation Criteria (1994) (98)
A Reference Lottery Metric for Valuing Health (1996) (97)
Communication of ambiguous risk information (1991) (96)
The Risks and Rewards of Criminal Activity: A Comprehensive Test of Criminal Deterrence (1986) (95)
Market Incentives for Criminal Behavior (1986) (95)
Labor Market Estimates of the Senior Discount for the Value of Statistical Life (2006) (94)
Price and Availability Tradeoffs of Automobile Insurance Regulation (1989) (93)
Product Liability, Research and Development, and Innovation (1993) (93)
The catastrophic effects of natural disasters on insurance markets (2006) (93)
Overriding consumer preferences with energy regulations (2012) (92)
Bayesian decisions with ambiguous belief aversion (1992) (92)
The heterogeneity of the value of statistical life: Introduction and overview (2009) (90)
Valuing risks of death from terrorism and natural disasters (2009) (89)
Dead Reckoning: Demographic Determinants of the Accuracy of Mortality Risk Perceptions (2003) (89)
The Generational Divide in Support for Environmental Policies: European Evidence (2005) (88)
Promoting Safety Through Workers' Compensation: The Efficacy and Net Wage Costs of Injury Insurance (1989) (87)
The Mortality Cost to Smokers (2007) (86)
Reforming Products Liability (1992) (86)
Immigrant Status and the Value of Statistical Life (2010) (84)
Handbook of the economics of risk and uncertainty (2014) (81)
Commonalities in Time and Ambiguity Aversion for Long-Term Risks* (2003) (80)
The Cost-per-Life-Saved Cutoff for Safety-Enhancing Regulations (1999) (80)
The effect of 1980s tort reform legislation on general liability and medical malpractice insurance (1993) (80)
The Role of Publication Selection Bias in Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life (2014) (78)
Consumer Behavior and the Safety Effects of Product Safety Regulation (1985) (77)
Risk-risk analysis (1994) (77)
Risky investment decisions: How are individuals influenced by their groups? (2011) (76)
The heterogeneity of time–risk tradeoffs (2000) (76)
Publication Selection and the Income Elasticity of the Value of a Statistical Life (2013) (76)
How to value a life (2008) (72)
Racial Differences in Labor Market Values of a Statistical Life (2003) (72)
Risk Beliefs and Smoking Behavior (2008) (71)
How costly is “clean”? An analysis of the benefits and costs of Superfund site remediations (1999) (70)
Measures of Mortality Risks (1997) (70)
A Theory of Job Shopping: A Bayesian Perspective (1980) (70)
Pricing Lives: Guideposts for a Safer Society (2018) (69)
Economic Foundations of the Current Regulatory Reform Efforts (1996) (68)
Heterogeneous Rates of Time Preference and the Decision to Smoke (2011) (67)
Frameworks for Analyzing the Effects of Risk and Environmental Regulations on Productivity (1983) (66)
Are Individuals Bayesian Decision Makers (1985) (66)
Union, labor market structure, and the welfare implications of the quality of work (1980) (65)
The Effects of Tort Reform on Medical Malpractice Insurers' Ultimate Losses (2006) (64)
The Devaluation of Life (2009) (63)
How Do Judges Think about Risk (1999) (61)
Corporate Risk Analysis: A Reckless Act? (2000) (61)
Consumer processing of hazard warning information (1988) (61)
Valuing health care: Discounting health effects for medical decisions (1995) (61)
Assessing whether there is a cancer premium for the value of a statistical life. (2014) (60)
The Distribution of the Insurance Market Effects of Tort Liability Reforms (1998) (60)
Mortality Risk Perceptions: A Bayesian Reassessment (1997) (60)
Smoking and other Risky Behaviors (1998) (59)
Pain and suffering in product liability cases: Systematic compensation or capricious awards? (1988) (59)
Jurors, Judges, and the Mistreatment of Risk by the Courts (2000) (58)
An Iterative Choice Approach to Valuing Clean Lakes, Rivers, and Streams (2000) (57)
Labor market valuations of life and limb: empirical evidence and policy implications. (1978) (57)
Value of a Statistical Life: Relative Position vs. Relative Age (2005) (55)
Automobile Seatbelt Usage and the Value of Statistical Life (2007) (55)
Reference-dependent valuations of risk: Why willingness-to-accept exceeds willingness-to-pay (2011) (55)
Punitive Damages: How Judges and Juries Perform (2004) (55)
Toward a Diminished Role for Tort Liability: Social Insurance, Government Regulation, and Contemporary Risks to Health and Safety (1989) (53)
Pricing the global health risks of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) (52)
The market response to product safety litigation (1990) (51)
The Dimensions of the Product Liability Crisis (1991) (51)
Regulation of Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks (2006) (51)
What Juries Can't Do Well: The Jury's Performance as a Risk Manager (1998) (50)
Environmentally Responsible Energy Pricing (1994) (49)
Policy Challenges of the Heterogeneity of the Value of Statistical Life (2011) (49)
Discontinuous Behavioral Responses to Recycling Laws and Plastic Water Bottle Deposits (2009) (49)
Smoking Risks in Spain: Part I - Perception of Risks to the Smoker (2000) (48)
The Determinants of the Disposition of Product Liability Claims and Compensation for Bodily Injury (1986) (48)
Smoke-Filled Rooms: A Postmortem on the Tobacco Deal (2002) (46)
Learning about risk (1987) (45)
Income Effects and the Value of Health (1993) (45)
Product Liability Litigation with Risk Aversion (1988) (43)
Regulation through Litigation (2002) (43)
Behavioral Public Choice: The Behavioral Paradox of Government Policy (2015) (43)
Willingness to accept equals willingness to pay for labor market estimates of the value of a statistical life (2013) (42)
Rational Risk Policy: The 1996 Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures (1998) (42)
Medical Malpractice Insurance in the Wake of Liability Reform (1995) (42)
Environmental policy choice under uncertainty (1976) (41)
Dynamic relationships between social norms and pro-environmental behavior: evidence from household recycling (2020) (41)
The fatality and morbidity components of the value of statistical life. (2016) (41)
Anchoring biases in international estimates of the value of a statistical life (2017) (40)
Recollection Bias and the Combat of Terrorism (2005) (40)
Sources of Inconsistency in Societal Responses to Health Risks (1990) (40)
The Income Elasticity of Global Values of a Statistical Life: Stated Preference Evidence (2018) (39)
Pinning Down the Value of Statistical Life (2007) (39)
Estimation of Revealed Probabilities and Utility Functions for Product Safety Decisions (1998) (38)
Smoking Status and Public Responses to Ambiguous Scientific Risk Evidence (1999) (37)
Risk Equity (2000) (37)
Risk ratings that do not measure probabilities (2003) (37)
Product and Occupational Liability (1991) (37)
Compensation Mechanisms for Job Risks: Wages, Workers' Compensation, and Product Liability (2014) (37)
The Risk Management Dilemma (1996) (36)
Best Estimate Selection Bias in the Value of a Statistical Life (2017) (36)
The value of a statistical life for transportation regulations: A test of the benefits transfer methodology (2014) (36)
Alternative Policies to Increase Recycling of Plastic Water Bottles in the United States (2010) (35)
The Private Rationality of Bottled Water Drinking (2013) (35)
Do Federal Regulations Reduce Mortality? (2000) (34)
Conservative versus Mean Risk Assessments: Implications for Superfund Policies (1997) (34)
The Valuation of Risks to Life and Health: Guidelines for Policy Analysis (1986) (34)
Discounting dilemmas: Editors’ introduction (2008) (34)
Survey Mode Effects on Valuation of Environmental Goods (2010) (34)
The Relative Weights of Direct and Indirect Experiences in the Formation of Environmental Risk Beliefs (2014) (34)
Behavioral Probabilities (2006) (33)
5. Risk-Dollar Tradeoffs, Risk Perceptions, and Consumer Behavior (1987) (33)
Voter Preferences and State Regulation of Smoking (2004) (33)
What's to Know? Puzzles in the Literature on the Value of Statistical Life (2011) (33)
The effect of product safety regulation on safety precautions. (1994) (32)
Individual Rationality, Hazard Warnings, and the Foundations of Tort Law (1996) (32)
The Social Costs of Punitive Damages Against Corporations in Environmental and Safety Tort (1998) (31)
Smoking Risks in Spain: Part Ii - Perceptions of Environmental Tobacco Smoke Externalities (2000) (29)
Government Action, Biases in Risk Perception, and Insurance Decisions (1995) (29)
Hazard Communication: Warnings and Risk (1996) (29)
Insurance Market Responses to the 1980s Liability Reforms: An Analysis of Firm-Level Data (1994) (29)
The Challenge of Punitive Damages Mathematics (2001) (28)
Imperfect job risk information and optimal workmen's compensation benefits (1980) (28)
The fatality and injury costs of expenditures (1994) (28)
Housing price responses to newspaper publicity of hazardous waste sites (2002) (28)
Smoking Risks in Spain: Part Iii - Determinants of Smoking Behavior (2000) (27)
Chapter 7 - The Value of Individual and Societal Risks to Life and Health (2014) (27)
Risk Beliefs and Preferences for E-cigarettes (2015) (27)
The impact of cannabis access laws on opioid prescribing. (2019) (27)
Environmental policy choice with an uncertain chance of irreversibility (1985) (27)
Self-Selection, Learning-Induced Quits, and the Optimal Wage Structure (1980) (25)
"Sorry” Is Never Enough: How State Apology Laws Fail to Reduce Medical Malpractice Liability Risk. (2018) (25)
Determining the Proper Scope of Climate Change Policy Benefits in U.S. Regulatory Analyses: Domestic versus Global Approaches (2016) (25)
Towards Principles and Standards for the Benefit-Cost Analysis of Safety (2011) (25)
The Performance of Liability Insurance in States with Different Products-Liability Statutes (1990) (25)
Misuses and Proper Uses of Hedonic Values of Life in Legal Contexts (2000) (24)
Utility functions for mild and severe health risks (2018) (24)
The coase theorem in rent-seeking society (1995) (24)
Product Liability and Regulation: Establishing the Appropriate Institutional Division of Labor (1988) (24)
The Governmental Composition of the Insurance Costs of Smoking* (1999) (24)
The Flawed Hedonic Damages Measure of Compensation for Wrongful Death and Personal Injury (2008) (24)
Tort Liability Litigation Costs for Commercial Claims (2007) (23)
Irreversible environmental investments with uncertain benefit levels (1988) (23)
Hyperbolic Discounting of Public Goods (2006) (23)
Deterring and Compensating Oil Spill Catastrophes: The Need for Strict and Two-Tier Liability (2011) (23)
The impact of cannabis access laws on opioid prescribing (2019) (23)
Monetizing the Benefits of Risk and Environmental Regulation (2006) (23)
Safety at Any Price (2003) (22)
Environmental Risk and Uncertainty (2014) (22)
The New Cigarette Paternalism (2002) (22)
THE ROLE OF INFORMATION DISCLOSURE IN CLIMATE MITIGATION POLICY (2012) (22)
Antecedents and Consequences : Organizing for Improvisation: the Backstage Story of the Vancouver Jazz Concert and Symposium (1998) (22)
Workers' Compensation Benefits: Adequacy, Equity, and Efficiency (1985) (22)
Quantifying and Valuing Environmental Health Risks (2005) (22)
The Consumer Welfare Effects of Liability for Pain and Suffering: An Exploratory Analysis (1993) (22)
Producer and Consumer Responses to Green Housing Labels (2014) (21)
Efficacy of labeling of foods and pharmaceuticals. (1994) (21)
Smoke-Filled Rooms (2002) (21)
Differences in Subjective Risk Thresholds: Worker Groups As An Example (1998) (21)
Pricing Lives (2018) (20)
An Empirical Assessment of Early Offer Reform for Medical Malpractice (2007) (20)
Regulating Ambiguous Risks: The Less than Rational Regulation of Pharmaceuticals (2015) (20)
Willingness to accept equals willingness to pay for labor market estimates of the value of a statistical life (2014) (19)
The Value of Life: Has Voodoo Economics Come to the Courts? (1990) (19)
Comment: The Perils of Qualitative Smoking Risk Measures (2000) (19)
Reference dependence in iterative choices (2008) (19)
Utility-Based Measures of Health (1991) (19)
Organizational Form and Insurance Company Performance: Stocks Versus Mutuals (1995) (19)
Constructive cigarette regulation. (1998) (19)
Welfare of the elderly : an economic analysis and policy prescription (1979) (19)
Insurance and Individual Incentives in Adaptive Contexts (1979) (19)
Regulating Consumer Product Safety (1984) (19)
Variables influencing the neural correlates of perceived risk of physical harm (2011) (18)
The risks of terrorism (2003) (18)
Determining the Proper Scope of Climate Change Benefits (2014) (18)
Market Incentives for Safety (1985) (17)
Pain and Suffering: Damages in Search of a Sounder Rationale (1996) (17)
Worker Learning and Compensating Differentials (1991) (17)
Economic Theories of Decision Making Underuncertainty:Implications for Policy Analysis (1991) (17)
The Automobile Risk Metric for Valuing Health Risks (1995) (16)
Structuring an Effective Occupational Disease Policy: Victim Compensation and Risk Regulation (1984) (16)
Alternative Approaches to Valuing the Health Impacts of Accidents: Liability Law and Prospective Evaluations (1983) (15)
Cotton dust regulation: An OSHA success story? (1985) (15)
How Unobservable Productivity Biases the Value of a Statistical Life (2005) (15)
Smoking Risks in Spain: Part III—Determinants of Smoking Behavior (2000) (15)
Regulating the regulators (1996) (14)
The Value of Regional Water Quality Improvements (2004) (14)
Natural disaster risks: An introduction (2006) (14)
Tobacco Regulation Through Litigation: The Master Settlement Agreement (2009) (14)
Alternative institutional responses to asbestos (1996) (13)
Safety behavior and consumer responses to cigarette lighter safety mechanisms (1996) (13)
The Denominator Blindness Effect: Accident Frequencies and the Misjudgment of Recklessness (2004) (13)
Risk guideposts for a safer society: Introduction and overview (2019) (13)
Carcinogen regulation: risk characteristics and the synthetic risk bias. (1995) (13)
Social cost of carbon: Domestic duty. (2016) (13)
Estimating the Value of a Statistical Life Using Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) Data (2013) (12)
Damming the West: Ralph Nader's Study Group Report on the Bureau of Reclamation (1973) (12)
Synthetic risks, risk potency, and carcinogen regulation. (1998) (12)
Social Insurance in Market Contexts: Implications of the Structure of Workers’ Compensation for Job Safety and Wages (1992) (12)
Consumer’s Guide to Regulatory Impact Analysis: Ten Tips for Being an Informed Policymaker (2017) (12)
Income Elasticity and the Global Value of a Statistical Life (2017) (12)
Employment Relationships with Joint Employer and Worker Experimentation (1983) (11)
The Interaction between Product Liability and Workers' Compensation as Ex Post Remedies for Workplace Injuries (1989) (11)
The Changing Landscape of Blockbuster Punitive Damages Awards (2009) (11)
Rational Discounting for Regulatory Analysis (2006) (11)
Regulating uncertain health hazards when there is changing risk information. (1984) (11)
Pensions, Labor, and Individual Choice: The Structure of Uncertainty and the Use of Nontransferable Pensions as a Mobility-Reduction Device (1985) (11)
Chapter 9 Regulation of Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks (2007) (11)
Heterogeneity in Values of Morbidity Risks from Drinking Water (2011) (10)
The General-Liability Reform Experiments and the Distribution of Insurance-Market Outcomes (1995) (10)
Smoking Risks in Spain: Part I—Perception of Risks to the Smoker (2000) (10)
Why Relative Economic Position Does Not Matter: A Cost-Benefit Analysis (2003) (10)
Paying for Climate Change Policies in Europe (2005) (10)
Tort Reform and Insurance Markets (2004) (10)
Cost-Benefit Analysis: Why Relative Economic Position Does Not Matter (2002) (9)
Misuses and Proper Uses of Hedonic Values of Life (2000) (9)
Voter-Weighted Environmental Preferences (2009) (9)
Public Perception of Smoking Risks (1999) (9)
THE EFFECT OF TRANSPORTATION DEREGULATION ON WORKER SAFETY. CHAPTER 7 OF TRANSPORTATION SAFETY IN AN AGE OF DEREGULATION (1988) (9)
Recollection Bias and Its Underpinnings: Lessons from Terrorism Risk Assessments (2017) (9)
Why There is No Defense of Punitive Damages (1998) (9)
Does Product Liability Make Us Safer? (2011) (9)
The risky business of insurance pricing (1993) (9)
The net effects of medical malpractice tort reform on health insurance losses: the Texas experience (2017) (8)
Editor's introduction (1988) (8)
4. The Effect of Risk Information on Precautionary Behavior (1987) (8)
Catastrophic Risk: Waking Up to the Reality of a Pandemic? (2020) (8)
Product-risk labeling : a federal responsibility (1993) (8)
Smoking: Making the Risky Decision. (1993) (8)
Private Recycling Values, Social Norms, and Legal Rules (2014) (8)
Insurance and catastrophes: The changing role of the liability system (1995) (8)
Reference-Dependence Effects in Benefit Assessment: Beyond the WTA-WTP Dichotomy and WTA-WTP Ratios (2015) (8)
The Structure and Enforcement of Job Safety Regulation (1986) (8)
The Mortality Cost of Expenditures (2020) (7)
Bernoulli two-armed bandits with geometric termination (1981) (7)
PROMOTING SMOKERS' WELFARE WITH RESPONSIBLE TAXATION (1994) (7)
Electronic cigarette risk beliefs and usage after the vaping illness outbreak (2020) (7)
Environmental taxation for environmental regulation and fiscal policy: An analysis of a Clinton-type BTU tax (1995) (7)
Cleaning Up Superfund (1996) (7)
Classroom: Estimating Economic Damages as an Instructional Device (1998) (7)
Best Estimate Selection Bias of Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life (2017) (7)
Risk Regulation Lessons from Mad Cows (2013) (7)
The Fatality and Morbidity Components of the Value of Statistical Life (2015) (7)
Pricing Lives for Corporate Risk Decisions (2014) (6)
Law and Economics as a Pillar of Legal Education (2011) (6)
The relationship between the markets for health insurance and medical malpractice insurance (2016) (6)
Anchoring biases in international estimates of the value of a statistical life (2017) (6)
Superfund and Real Risks (1994) (6)
1. Information Processing and Individual Decisions (1987) (6)
The Econometric Basis for Estimates of the Value of Life (1990) (6)
Economic lessons for COVID‐19 pandemic policies (2021) (6)
Shifting the Fat‐Tailed Distribution of Blockbuster Punitive Damages Awards (2013) (6)
Regulatory Breakdown The Crisis of Confidence in U . S . Regulation (2012) (6)
The Anatomy of Jumps and Falls in Wages (1998) (6)
Wading Through the Muddle of Risk-Utility Analysis (1990) (6)
The Benefits of Mortality Risk Reduction: Happiness Surveys vs. The Value of a Statistical Life (2013) (6)
Punitive Damages: How Jurors Fail to Promote Efficiency (2002) (6)
Pricing Lives: International Guideposts for Safety (2017) (6)
Allocating Responsibility for the Failure of Global Warming Policies (2007) (6)
Judicial Review of Agency Benefit-Cost Analysis (2014) (6)
The Generational Divide in Support for Climate Change Policies: European Evidence (2005) (6)
Assessing the Insurance Role of Tort Liability after Calabresi (2013) (5)
The Mortality Cost Metric for the Costs of War (2019) (5)
Viscusi : The Value of Risks to Life and Health 1945 with Other Studies (2007) (5)
Long-term environmental risks (1990) (5)
Principles for Cigarette Taxation in Africa (2003) (5)
The Benefits and Costs of Regulatory Reforms for Superfund (1997) (5)
Human Health Risk Assessments (2019) (5)
Presidential oversight: Controlling the regulators (1983) (5)
The Blockbuster Punitive Damages Awards (2004) (5)
The Hold-Up Problem: Why It Is Urgent to Rethink the Economics of Disaster Insurance Protection (2009) (5)
Publication Selection Biases in Stated Preference Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life (2019) (5)
Addressing Catastrophic Risks: Disparate Anatomies Require Tailored Therapies (2011) (4)
Human Health Risk Assessment for Superfund (1994) (4)
Medical Malpractice Reform: What Works and What Doesn’t (2019) (4)
Efficiency criteria for nudges and norms (2019) (4)
Reply to the comments on "The devaluation of life" (2009) (4)
Human Health Risk Assessments for Superfund (1994) (4)
Social Insurance for Work and Product Injuries (1990) (4)
Efficient Warnings, Not "Wolf or Puppy" Warnings (2016) (4)
Punitive Damages by Numbers: Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker (2009) (4)
Asymmetric assessments in valuing pharmaceutical risks. (1996) (4)
Have Increases in Workers’ Compensation Benefits Paid for Themselves? (1990) (4)
Right to Know and Behavioral Responses to Hazard Warnings (1987) (4)
Letter—The Social Cost of Carbon: Maintaining the Integrity of Economic Analysis—A Response to Revesz et al. (2017) (2017) (4)
The Political Economy of Risk Communication Policies for Food and Alcoholic Beverages (1989) (4)
Reply to the Effects of 'Early Offers' in Medical Malpractice Cases: Evidence from Texas (2010) (4)
Asymmetric Effects on Fatality Rates of Changes in Workers’ Compensation Laws (2019) (4)
A Statistical Profile of Pharmaceutical Industry Liability, 1976-1989 (1994) (3)
Risk, regulation, and responsibility : principles for Australian risk policy (1996) (3)
Responsible Precautions for Uncertain Environmental Risks (2019) (3)
The Quantity-Adjusted Value of Life, 26 Econ (1988) (3)
The Mortality costs of regulatory expenditures : a special issue of the Journal of risk and uncertainty (1994) (3)
Smoking Risks in Spain: Part II—Perceptions of Environmental Tobacco Smoke Externalities (2000) (3)
Safety through markets (1989) (3)
From Cash Crop to Cash Cow (1997) (3)
Extending the Domain of the Value of a Statistical Life (2020) (3)
Using Warnings to Extend the Boundaries of Consumer Sovereignty (1999) (3)
Deterring inefficient pharmaceutical litigation: an economic rationale for the FDA regulatory compliance defense. (1996) (3)
6. Hazard Warnings for Workplace Risks: Effects on Risk Perceptions, Wage Rates, and Turnover (1987) (3)
The Fatal Failure of the Regulatory State (2018) (3)
Saving Lives through Punitive Damages (2009) (3)
Specific Information, General Information, and Employment Matches Under Uncertainty (1979) (3)
Setting efficient standards for occupational hazards. (1982) (3)
Equivalent Frames of Reference for Judging Risk Regulation Policies (1994) (3)
The Rationality of Automobile Seatbelt Usage: The Value of Statistical Life and Fatality Risk Beliefs (2004) (3)
Risk Perceptions in Regulation, Tort Liability, and the Market (1991) (3)
Empirical Analysis of Tort Damages (2012) (3)
Death by Regulation: How Regulations Can Increase Mortality Risk (2017) (3)
The regulation of motor vehicle and traffic safety by Glenn C. Blomquist. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988, 138 pp. Price: $45 cloth (1989) (3)
Cigarette Warnings: The Perils of the Cipollone Decision (1993) (3)
Wellbeing measures of mortality risks: life-cycle contradictions and ordinal index challenges (2019) (2)
Regulation, Taxation, and Litigation (2011) (2)
Product Liability Entering the Twenty-First Century: The U.S. Perspective (2001) (2)
Deterrence Instructions: What Jurors Won't Do (2002) (2)
Trends in Household Recycling of Cans, Paper, Plastic, and Glass; U.S. and State Data 2005-2012 (2014) (2)
THE INFORMATIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR EFFECTIVE REGULATORY REVIEW: AN ANALYSIS OF THE EPA LEAD STANDARD (1982) (2)
THE PERFORMANCE OF THE 1980S CALIFORNIA INSURANCE AND LIABILITY REFORMS (1999) (2)
A Regulatory Policy Strategy for Protecting Immigrant Workers (2020) (2)
Damages to Deter Police Shootings (2020) (2)
Health and safety regulation (2020) (2)
Cutting Green Tape: Toxic Pollutants, Environmental Regulation and the Law (2018) (2)
Supreme Court Amicus Brief Regarding Wyeth V. Diana Levine (2008) (2)
Sorting Models of Labor Mobility, Turnover, and Unemployment (1979) (2)
Risk–Risk Tradeoffs for Mass Shootings and International Terrorism (2021) (2)
The Regulation-Litigation Interaction (2001) (2)
Smoking Risk Policy: A Special Issue of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (2000) (2)
The Value of Life: Editor's Introduction (1997) (2)
The value of a statistical life for transportation regulations: A test of the benefits transfer methodology (2015) (2)
Strategic behavior and the impact of unions on wage incentive plans (1982) (1)
2 OSHA: DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, AND IMPACT (1983) (1)
Classics in Risk Management (2004) (1)
Efficient Warnings, Not "Wolf or Rabbit" Warnings (2016) (1)
SMOKE-FILLED ROOMS: A POSTMORTEM (2002) (1)
The Punitive Damages Calculus: The Differential Incidence of State Punitive Damages Reforms (2016) (1)
WORKERS' COMPENSATION BENEFITS PAID FOR THEMSELVES? (1990) (1)
Risk Attitudes and Heterogeneous Rates of Time Preference (2005) (1)
Phosphates and the Environmental Free Lunch (1984) (1)
Do workers want OSHA’s ergonomics regulations? (2001) (1)
The Specific Consumer Expectations Test for Product Defects (2019) (1)
Reducing Medical Malpractice Loss Reserve Volatility Through Tort Reform (2020) (1)
Judging Risk and Recklessness (2002) (1)
Moral Hazard and Merit Rating Over Time: An Analysis of Optimal Intertemporal Wage Structures (1986) (1)
Taming Blockbuster Punitive Damages Awards (2018) (1)
The heterogeneity of the value of statistical life: evidence and policy implications (2015) (1)
Economic and Psychological Aspects of Valuing Risk Reduction (1997) (1)
A Postmortem on the Cigarette Settlement (1999) (1)
Product Liability in the 21st Century: The U.S. Perspective (2001) (1)
Budgetary constraints and benefit-cost criteria (1972) (1)
Regulatory Economics in the Courts: An Analysis of Judge Scalia's NHTSA Bumper Decision (1987) (1)
Assessing Whether There Is a Cancer Premium for the Value of a Statistical Life (2012) (1)
Pricing Lives for Corporate and Governmental Risk Decisions 1 (2015) (1)
Overriding consumer preferences with energy regulations (2013) (1)
Identifying the Legitimate Role of the Value of a Statistical Life in Legal Contexts (2019) (1)
How regulations undervalue occupational fatalities (2021) (1)
Risk Beliefs and Individual Rationality (1998) (1)
Lessons From Ten Years of Household Recycling in the United States by (2018) (1)
The National Implications of Liability Reforms for General Liability and Medical Malpractice Insurance (1994) (1)
Reference-dependent valuations of risk: Why willingness-to-accept exceeds willingness-to-pay (2011) (1)
The Environmental Consequences of War: Valuing the health consequences of war (2000) (1)
Occupational Safety and Health in the 1990s (1992) (1)
Eight. The Role of Unions in Altering the Structure of Risk Compensation (1990) (1)
Compensating workplace toxic torts. (1988) (1)
Do Judges Do Better (2002) (1)
Promoting Equity Through Equitable Risk Tradeoffs (2023) (1)
Risk by Choice? Knowledge and Power in the Hazardous Workplace@@@Workers at Risk: Voices from the Workplace.@@@Risk by Choice: Regulating Health and Safety in the Workplace. (1984) (1)
Risky business: Genetic testing and exclusionary practices in the hazardous workplace, by Elaine Draper. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991, 315 pp. Price: $49.50 cloth, $15.95 paper (1993) (0)
Three. The Performance of Workers' Compensation as a Social Insurance Program (1990) (0)
Toward a Rational Basis for Regulation (1998) (0)
Appendix B. A Conceptual Model of Worker and Firm Responses to Insurance Benefits (1990) (0)
APPENDIX A. Cleaning Agent Questionnaire (1987) (0)
APPENDIX F. Additional Results about Injury Valuations (1987) (0)
fundamental long-standing concerns in the compensating wage differentials literature and its public policy implications : the econometric properties of estimates of the value of statistical life (2006) (0)
Experimental Study of Consumer Responses to Different Sources of Information about Prescription Drugs (2020) (0)
The Perception and Excessive Valuation of Small, Publicized Drinking Water Risks (2020) (0)
Kip Viscusi Best Estimate Selection Bias in the Value of a Statistical Life 1 (2018) (0)
The Financial Costs to the States and the Federal Government (2002) (0)
The Mortality Costs of Regulatory Expenditure (1994) (0)
Health and Safety (2018) (0)
Product Safety and Managerial Decisions: Editor's Introduction (1996) (0)
Insurance Company Performance: Stocks versus Mutuals (1998) (0)
Promoting Safer Cigarettes (2002) (0)
Insurance@@@Workers' Compensation Benefits: Adequacy, Equity, and Efficiency (1986) (0)
9. CONTROLLING RISKS THROUGH INDIVIDUAL CHOICE (1983) (0)
The Broad Impacts of Disposable Lighter Safety Regulations (2022) (0)
Risk Analysis and Regulatory Policy (1998) (0)
The Proposed Federal Settlement (2002) (0)
Does Product Liability Law Make Us Safer? (2017) (0)
The Hierarchy and Performance of State Recycling and Deposit Laws (2022) (0)
SAVING LIVES THROUGH PUNITIVE DAMAGES 231 proper incentives for deterrence in wrongful death cases by linking punitive damages awards (2010) (0)
Nine. The Effects of Workers' Compensation on Job Safety (1990) (0)
Online/In print: online/in print. (1999) (0)
Compensating Differentials for Occupational Health and Safety Risks: Implications of Recent Evidence (2022) (0)
The perceived risks of e-cigarettes to others and during pregnancy. (2021) (0)
Changes in Household Recycling Behavior: Evidence from Panel Data (2023) (0)
Youth Smoking: Beyond Joe Camel (2002) (0)
False claims in tobacco litigation junk science article. (2006) (0)
Economic Position Does Not Matter: A Cost-Benefit Analysis (2002) (0)
Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Impact of State Deposit Laws and Recycling Laws: Household Recycling Following Interstate Moves (2019) (0)
3. The Design of the Consumer Information Study (1987) (0)
Hindsight-Choice Bias in Combating Terrorism (2004) (0)
APPENDIX E. Linearity of Rating Scale (1987) (0)
Responsible Precautions for Uncertain Environmental Risks 1 (2019) (0)
Economic Value of Reducing Exposure to Environmental Health Risks (2020) (0)
The Punitive Damages Calculus: The Differential Incidence of State Punitive Damages Reforms: The Punitive Damages Calculus (2017) (0)
Preventing automobile injury: New findings from evaluation research by John D. Graham, ed., Dover, Massachusetts: Auburn House Publishing, 1988, 287 pp. Price: $35 cloth (2007) (0)
The Relative Merits of Cost-Benefit Analysis & Well-Being Analysis (2013) (0)
Ten. Tort Liability Remedies for Job Injuries: Product Liability and Its Interaction with Workers' Compensation (1990) (0)
The status of OSHA reform: A comment on mendeloff's proposals (1986) (0)
Liability and Social Insurance (1998) (0)
Risk Beliefs and Addiction (2002) (0)
The effect of 1980s tort reform legislation on general liability and medical malpractice insurance. (1993) (0)
JEL Codes : K 13 , G 22 Tort Reform and Insurance Markets (2003) (0)
Facts and Fantasy (1995) (0)
4. MARKET FORCES AND INADEQUATE RISK INFORMATION (1983) (0)
When to Walk Away and When to Risk It All (2020) (0)
7. Implications for Economic Behavior (1987) (0)
The Social Discount Rate: Legal and Philosophical Underpinnings (2022) (0)
Utility functions for mild and severe health risks (2019) (0)
Juries, Hindsight, and Punitive Damages Awards: Reply to Richard Lempert (2002) (0)
7. HOW ΤΟ SET STANDARDS IF YOU MUST (1983) (0)
Heterogeneity in Values of Morbidity Risks from Drinking Water (2011) (0)
6. THE VALUE OF LIFE AND LIMB (1983) (0)
APPENDIX ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF THE QUIT PROCESS (1983) (0)
Clean Act Water Brief (2008) (0)
Mobility-Reduction Device (1985) (0)
1 Principles and Standards for the Benefit-Cost Analysis of Public Safety 1 (2010) (0)
Five. Workers' Implicit Value of Life (1990) (0)
Chapter 13. Efficient Warnings, Not “Wolf or Puppy” Warnings (2019) (0)
Tort Liability Litigation Costs Joni (2013) (0)
NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository (2005) (0)
Pro and Con: Punitive Damages Should Be Outlawed (1999) (0)
Marl<et incentives for safety (2001) (0)
Insurance. W. Kip Viscusi, Workers' Compensation Benefits: Adequacy, Equity, and Eficiency, John D. Worrall and David Appel, Editors. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1985, 198pp. Price: $26.00 cloth (2007) (0)
The impact of conservatism on risk assessments at Superfund sites (1995) (0)
Bringing Predictability to the Chaos of Punitive Damages (2021) (0)
Tobacco Regulation or Litigation? (reviewing W. Kip Viscusi, Smoke-Filled Rooms: A Postmortem on the Tobacco Deal (2002)) (2017) (0)
APPENDIX C. Variation in Consumers’ Valuation of Product Attributes (1987) (0)
Editor's note (1995) (0)
Employment Hazards.@@@The Economics of Sex Differentials.@@@Economic Change and Employment Policy. (1982) (0)
5. THE BASIS FOR GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION (1983) (0)
Seven. Worker Learning and the Valuation of the Compensation Package (1990) (0)
3. COMPENSATING DIFFERENTIALS FOR RISK (1983) (0)
1. RISK AND INDIVIDUAL CHOICE (1983) (0)
Two. The Research Context of the Analysis (1990) (0)
Six. The Value of Life: Quantity Adjustments and Implicit Rates of Time Preference (1990) (0)
Four. Net Workers' Compensation Costs: Implications of the Wage Offset (1990) (0)
Implications of Global-Change Uncertainties: Agricultural and Natural Resource Policies (2019) (0)
Product-Risk Labeling (1993) (0)
APPENDIX D. Effect of Labels on Other Consumer Actions (1987) (0)
B USINESS PUNITIVE DAMAGES : HOW JUDGES AND JURIES PERFORM (2002) (0)
Clean Water Act Brief (2008) (0)
The Value of Objective Characteristics to Predict the Extent of Household Recycling (2023) (0)
The Financial Costs of Smoking to Society (2002) (0)
Appendix A. Estimation of the Value of Life Using Flexible Functional Forms (1990) (0)
Lessons from the Tobacco Deal (2002) (0)
8. THE POLITICAL CONTEXT OF RISK REGULATION POLICIES (1983) (0)
National Ambient Air Quality Standards (Naaqs) Brief (2000) (0)
The Settlement of the State Lawsuits (2002) (0)
The locus of dread for mass shooting risks: Distinguishing alarmist risk beliefs from risk preferences (2023) (0)
Hazard Warnings and Risk Information (1998) (0)
The Productivity Impact of Collaborative Research in the Economics of Risk and Uncertainty (2017) (0)
APPENDIX G. Chemical Labeling Questionnaire for Workplace Risks (1987) (0)
Valuing Risks of Death from Terrorist Attacks (2014) (0)
CIGARETTE SMOKERS AS JOB RISK TAKERS 271 (2005) (0)
Abbreviations and Symbols (1990) (0)
ublication selection and the income elasticity of the value f a statistical life (2013) (0)
Reinventing rationality: The role of regulatory analysis in the federal bureaucracy, by Thomas O. McGarity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992, 384 pp. Price: NPA cloth (1993) (0)
Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Impact of State Recycling and Deposit Laws: Household Recycling Following Interstate Moves (2023) (0)
Can Tort Juries Punish Competently? (2021) (0)

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