A worker, who is typical in all respects, works for a wage of $50,000 per year in

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A worker, who is typical in all respects, works for a wage of $50,000 per year in a perfectly safe occupation. Another typical worker does a job requiring exactly the same skills as the first worker, but in a risky occupation with a known death probability of 1 in 1,000 per year, and receives a wage of $58,000 per year. What value of a human life for workers with these characteristics should a cost-benefit analyst use?

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Cost-Benefit Analysis Concepts and Practice

ISBN: 978-1108401296

5th edition

Authors: Anthony E. Boardman, David H. Greenberg, Aidan R. Vining, David L. Weimer

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