Using Mandated Speed Limits to Measure the Value of a Statistical Life

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• Publication year

  2004

• Venue

  Journal of Political Economy

• Publication date

  2004-01-26

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Economics

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  DOI 10.1086/379932
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