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Private Values of Risk Tradeoffs at Superfund Sites: Housing Market Evidence on Learning About Risk
(The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2000)
This paper incorporates a Bayesian learning model into a hedonic framework to estimate the value that residents place on avoiding cancer risks from hazardous-waste sites. We show that residents are willing to pay to avoid ...
The Market Value of Reducing Cancer Risk: Hedonic Housing Prices with Changing Information
(Southern Economic Journal, 2002)
In this paper, we use housing price changes occurring after the release of a regulatory agency's environmental risk information to estimate the value people place on cancer risk reduction. Using a large original data set ...
Safety at Any Price
(Regulation, 2002)
After three decades of experience with extensive government regulation and oversight of health, safety and environmental matters, we have reason to believe that those measures have largely failed to fulfill their initial ...