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Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 2007 1(2):241-260; doi:10.1093/reep/rem014
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

Age Differences in the Value of Statistical Life: Revealed Preference Evidence

Joseph E. Aldy* and W. Kip Viscusi**

* Fellow, Resources for the Future, 1616 P Street NW, Washington, DC, 20036, USA
** University Distinguished Professor, 131 21st Avenue South, Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, TN 37203, USA

aldy{at}rff.org

kip.viscusi{at}vanderbilt.edu

Revealed preference evidence, especially based on wage-risk tradeoffs in the labor market, provides the primary empirical basis for analyses of the value of statistical life (VSL). This market evidence also provides guidance on how VSL varies with age. While labor market studies have generated conflicting evidence—some showing that VSL rises with age and others showing that VSL declines with age—more refined estimates that take into account the age variation in job fatality risks or life-cycle patterns of consumption show an inverted U relation between the VSL and age. The value of a statistical life-year shows a similar pattern and is not time-invariant. Applying estimates of the VSL-age relationship to an analysis of the Clear Skies initiative illustrates the implications of recognizing the age-VSL relationship.


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