What is the meaning of (statistical) life? Benefit–cost analysis in the time of COVID-19
指出，在COVID-19背景下，传统成本效益分析中评估死亡风险减少的社会收益的方法可能低估了收益，且不确定性很大，质疑了这些方法在危机中的适用性。
Efforts to support public policy decisions need to be conducted carefully and thoughtfully. Recent efforts to estimate the social benefits of reductions in mortality risks associated with COVID-19 interventions are likely understated. There are large uncertainties over how much larger the social benefits could be. This raises questions about how helpful conventional approaches to valuing mortality and morbidity risks for benefit-cost analyses can be in contexts such as the current crisis.