Risky Transportation Choices and the Value of a Statistical Life

Risky Transportation Choices and the Value of Statistical Life

This paper exploits an unusual transportation setting to generate some of the first revealed preference value of a statistical life (VSL) estimates from a low-income setting. We estimate the trade-offs individuals are willing to make between mortality risk and cost as they travel to and from the international airport in Sierra Leone (which is separated from the capital Freetown by a body of wat...

Does the Ability to Make a New Business Need More Risky Choices during Decisions? Evidences for the Neurocognitive Basis of Entrepreneurship

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Social indices of health are defined as the conditions and environment in which individuals are born, grown up, live, work, and deal with diseases. These include social gradient, early stages of life, stress, social deprivations, work environment, unemployment, social support, healthy food, transportation, and addiction. Socio-economic factors impact risky behaviors and health in drug users. Dr...

Effectiveness of Anger Management and Assertiveness Practices on Reducing Risky Behaviors and Increasing Assertiveness in Mothers of Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Background and Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of anger management and assertiveness practices on reducing risky behaviors and increasing assertiveness in mothers of children with neurodevelopmental disorders. Materials and Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted based on a control group pretest-posttest design. The statistical population consisted of ...

Can a single model account for both risky choices and inter-temporal choices? Testing the assumptions underlying models of risky inter-temporal choice.

There is growing interest in modelling how people make choices that involve both risks and delays, i.e., risky inter-temporal choices. We investigated an untested assumption underlying several proposed risky inter-temporal choice models: that pure risky choices and pure inter-temporal choices are special cases of risky inter-temporal choice. We tested this assumption by presenting a single grou...