Compensating Wages, Value of a Statistical Life, and Inter-industry Differentials
结合劳工统计局和职业安全健康局的死亡率数据与三个全国概率样本，研究危险工作的补偿性工资，发现行业间差异假说得到支持，但两种死亡率数据均无法可靠估计统计生命价值。
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) death rates were combined with three national probability samples to investigate compensating wages for hazardous work. Compensating wages were expected in blue-collar male-only samples, but not in male and female clerk samples. The inter-industry differentials hypothesis was investigated by alternately including and excluding dummy variables for broad industry divisions. The inter-industry differentials hypothesis was supported. The BLS and NIOSH death rates cannot be relied on to produce credible estimates of the value of a statistical life.