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Do Smokers Underestimate Risks?
(Journal of Political Economy, 1990)
This paper uses a national survey of 3,119 individuals to examine the effect of lung cancer risk perceptions on smoking activity. Both smokers and nonsmokers greatly overestimate the lung cancer risk of cigarette smoking, ...
Risk Perceptions in Regulation, Tort Liability, and the Market
(Regulation, 1991)
Risk regulations are generally based on a stylized view of the behavior of the individuals affected by the regulation. These behavioral assumptions establish the basis for regulation and also influence the character of the ...
National Survey Evidence on Disasters and Relief: Risk Beliefs, Self-Interest, and Compassion
(Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2006)
A nationally representative sample of respondents estimated their fatality risks from four
types of natural disasters, and indicated whether they favored governmental disaster
relief. For all hazards, including auto ...
Worker Learning and Compensating Differentials
(Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1991)
In the standard compensating wage differential model, workers value their wage and workers' compensation components based on full job risk information. Market forces generate positive wage differentials as ex ante compensation ...
Age Variations in Risk Perceptions and Smoking Decisions
(The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1991)
Abstract-The results of a national survey of smoking risks and smoking behavior are analyzed. Smoking risk perceptions follow the expected patterns given age differences in risk information acquired and differences in ...
How Do Judges Think About Risk?
(American Law and Economics Review, 1999)
A sample of almost 100 judges exhibited well-known patterns of biases in risk beliefs and reasonable implicit values of life. These biases and personal preferences largely do not affect attitudes toward judicial risk ...
The Denominator Blindness Effect: Accident Frequencies and the Misjudgment of Recklessness
(American Law and Economics Review, 2004)
People seriously misjudge accident risks because they routinely neglect relevant information about exposure. Such risk judgments affect both personal and public policy decisions, e.g., choice of a transport mode, but also ...