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Vaccination Evasion: Legislating A Solution Through A Revised Vaccinate All Children Act Of 2019, Sophia C. Aguilar
Vaccination Evasion: Legislating A Solution Through A Revised Vaccinate All Children Act Of 2019, Sophia C. Aguilar
Journal of Legislation
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Efficient Ethical Principles For Making Fatal Choices, W. Kip Viscusi
Efficient Ethical Principles For Making Fatal Choices, W. Kip Viscusi
Notre Dame Law Review
Resource allocations of all kinds inevitably encounter financial constraints, making it infeasible to make financially unbounded commitments. Such resource constraints arise in almost all health and safety risk contexts, which has led to a regulatory oversight process to ascertain whether the expected benefits of major regulations outweigh the costs. The economic approach to monetizing health and safety risks is well established and is based on the value of a statistical life (“VSL”). Government agencies use these values reflecting attitudes toward small changes in risk to monetize the largest benefit component of regulations—that dealing with mortality risks. This procedure consequently bases …