Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Subject "Industrial safety -- United States"

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    • Cigarette Smokers as Job Risk Takers 
      Hersch, Joni, 1956-; Viscusi, W. Kip (The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2001)
      Using a large data set, the authors find that smokers select riskier jobs, but receive lower total wage compensation for risk than do nonsmokers. This finding is inconsistent with conventional models of compensating ...
    • Market Incentives for Safety 
      Viscusi, W. Kip (Harvard Business Review, 1985)
      In the heated atmosphere generated by inch-high headlines and multimillion-dollar liability suits, two important facts often get lost. First, society's awareness of what ensuring reasonably complete safety would cost rarely ...