Saving lives versus life-years in rural
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Olof Johansson-Stenman; Minhaj Mahmud; Peter Martinsson
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Article
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2011
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Using a random sample of individuals in rural Bangladesh, this paper investigates people's ethical preferences regarding relative values of lives when it comes to saving lives of individuals of different ages. By assuming that an individual has preferences concerning different states of the world, a