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Death by Regulation: How Regulations Can Increase Mortality Risk

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  • Broughel, James
  • Viscusi, Kip

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This paper updates the cost-per-life-saved cutoff, which is a cost-effectiveness threshold for life-saving regulations, whereby regulations costing more per life saved than this threshold level are expected to increase mortality risk on net. Two competing

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  • Broughel, James & Viscusi, Kip, 2017. "Death by Regulation: How Regulations Can Increase Mortality Risk," Working Papers 06864, George Mason University, Mercatus Center.
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