The Value of a Statistical Life in a Dictatorship: Evidence from Stalin
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Keywords
Value of a statistical life; Autocracy; Dictatorship; Stalin; Great terror;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J17 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Value of Life; Foregone Income
- I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General
- N44 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation - - - Europe: 1913-
- P51 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Comparative Economic Systems - - - Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2018-04-23 (Health Economics)
- NEP-HIS-2018-04-23 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
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