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Do life-saving regulations save lives ?

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Summary, in English

Life-saving regulations may be counter-productive since they have an indirect mortality effect through the reduction in disposable income. This paper estimates the effect of income on mortality, controlling for the initial health status and a host of personal characteristics. The analysis is based on a random sample of the adult Swedish population of over 40,000 individuals followed up for 10-17 years. The income loss that will induce an expected fatality is estimated to be $6.8 million when the costs are borne equally among all adults, $8.4 million when the costs are borne proportionally to income and $9.8 million when the costs are borne progressively to income.

Publishing year

2002

Language

English

Pages

231-249

Publication/Series

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volume

24

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Environmental Health and Occupational Health

Keywords

  • risk-risk analysis
  • mortality
  • duration models
  • income
  • regulations

Status

Published

Research group

  • Social Epidemiology

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1573-0476