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Rajeswari answered on Mar 08 2021
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The value of a statistical life (VSL) is the local tradeoff rate between fatality risk and money.
When the tradeoff values are derived from choices in market contexts the VSL serves as both a measure of the population's willingness to pay for risk reduction and the marginal cost of enhancing safe
ty.
It can be calculated by the individual willingness to pay.
Suppose human beings value life very much and are ready to give a million dollars for reduction of one year life say then value of statistical life is 100000 dollars.
This is useful in finding the indifference curves for which price customers are indifferent, or for fixing interest rates, how people are willing to forgo the present enjoyment for future saving, or how much human beings value life and hence ready to pay for insurance, etc.
In Social and policitics also this is used for general estimation.
Ref:
Thomas J. Kniesner
Claremont Graduate University - Department of Economic Sciences; Syracuse University - Department of Economics; IZA
W. Kip Viscusi
Vanderbilt University - Law School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Vanderbilt University - Department of Economics; Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management; Vanderbilt University - Strategy and Business Economics
1. M Greenstone
The continuing impact of Sherwin Rosen's "Hedonic prices and implicit markets: Product differentiation in pure competition
Journal of Political Economy, volume 125, issue 6, p. 1891 - 1902
Posted: 2017
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2. T J Kniesner, J P Ziliak
Panel econometrics of labor market outcomes, p. 583 - 607
Posted: 2015
VSL = 2 million
Expected death is between 5 and 10 people
In monetary terms loss is between 10 and 20 million.
It is morally not appropriate to express loss of life in terms of dollars because a human being is wanted in life not only for the monetary benefits he brings, but also love, affection, security, etc. A mother’s place cannot be replaced by any other person and loss cannot be estimated in terms of money. But for calculations and statistics and not taking personally, the vsl of life is measured in money.
Here the vsl can be said 2 million per human being.
Tangible vs intangible loss:
Tangible losses are losses that are directly detected or visible and normally can be calculated in terms of money.
Intangible losses on the other hand mean incremental adverse consequences to the properties or assets that are not economic in nature. i.e. these losses cannot be measured in terms of money. They are the losses of values such as social, cultural, unique or resource based values.
We can give examples as if quality is reduced say in a factory then monetary terms we can say costs would be less because less skilled labour is used but demand for the product will become less and hence overall revenue reduction would be there. Thus net value of this can be measured and this is tangible loss.
But intangible losses are invisible and cannot be measured...
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