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W Kip Viscusi

Global rank #33 99%

Institution: Vanderbilt University

Primary Field: Theory (weighted toward more recent publications)

First Publication: 1976

Most Recent: 2025

RePEc ID: pvi69 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 0.00 0.00 5.70 0.00 7.71
Last 10 Years 0.00 0.00 19.44 0.00 22.29
All Time 22.45 30.67 71.96 0.00 230.65

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 112
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 140.76

Publications (112)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2025 Managed Expectations Theory: Ex ante likelihoods influence ex post utilities Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 2
2024 A Bayesian analysis of e‐cigarette risk perceptions in the United Kingdom Southern Economic Journal C 1
2023 Changes in household recycling behavior: Evidence from panel data Ecological Economics B 3
2023 The locus of dread for mass shooting risks: Distinguishing alarmist risk beliefs from risk preferences Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 2
2022 Efficiency criteria for nudges and norms Public Choice B 1
2021 Experimental study of consumer responses to different sources of information about prescription drugs Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 2
2021 Economic lessons for COVID‐19 pandemic policies Southern Economic Journal C 1
2020 The impact of cannabis access laws on opioid prescribing Journal of Health Economics B 3
2020 Electronic cigarette risk beliefs and usage after the vaping illness outbreak Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 1
2020 Pricing the global health risks of the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 1
2019 Utility functions for mild and severe health risks Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 1
2019 Risk guideposts for a safer society: Introduction and overview Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 1
2018 Decision irrationalities involving deadly risks Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 2
2017 Anchoring biases in international estimates of the value of a statistical life Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 2
2017 The Punitive Damages Calculus: The Differential Incidence of State Punitive Damages Reforms Southern Economic Journal C 2
2016 The fatality and morbidity components of the value of statistical life Journal of Health Economics B 2
2016 The relationship between the markets for health insurance and medical malpractice insurance Applied Economics C 3
2016 Risk Beliefs and Preferences for E-cigarettes American Journal of Health Economics B 1
2015 PRODUCER AND CONSUMER RESPONSES TO GREEN HOUSING LABELS Economic Inquiry C 2
2015 The value of a statistical life for transportation regulations: A test of the benefits transfer methodology Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 2
2015 The Role of Publication Selection Bias in Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life American Journal of Health Economics B 1
2014 Publication selection and the income elasticity of the value of a statistical life Journal of Health Economics B 3
2014 Willingness to accept equals willingness to pay for labor market estimates of the value of a statistical life Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 3
2014 ASSESSING WHETHER THERE IS A CANCER PREMIUM FOR THE VALUE OF A STATISTICAL LIFE Health Economics B 3
2012 The Value of a Statistical Life: Evidence from Panel Data Review of Economics and Statistics A 4
2012 WHAT'S TO KNOW? PUZZLES IN THE LITERATURE ON THE VALUE OF STATISTICAL LIFE Journal of Economic Surveys C 1
2012 Reference-dependent valuations of risk: Why willingness-to-accept exceeds willingness-to-pay Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 2
2011 Risky investment decisions: How are individuals influenced by their groups? Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 3
2011 Promoting Recycling: Private Values, Social Norms, and Economic Incentives American Economic Review S 3
2011 HETEROGENEOUS RATES OF TIME PREFERENCE AND THE DECISION TO SMOKE Economic Inquiry C 2
2010 Immigrant Status and the Value of Statistical Life Journal of Human Resources A 2
2010 Policy relevant heterogeneity in the value of statistical life: New evidence from panel data quantile regressions Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 3
2010 The heterogeneity of the value of statistical life: Introduction and overview Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 1
2009 Valuing risks of death from terrorism and natural disasters Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 1
2008 Adjusting the Value of a Statistical Life for Age and Cohort Effects Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
2008 The mortality cost to smokers Journal of Health Economics B 2
2008 RISK BELIEFS AND SMOKING BEHAVIOR Economic Inquiry C 2
2008 Estimating discount rates for environmental quality from utility-based choice experiments Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 3
2008 Discounting dilemmas: Editors’ introduction Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 2
2007 Labor market estimates of the senior discount for the value of statistical life Journal of Environmental Economics and Management A 2
2007 Automobile Seatbelt Usage and the Value of Statistical Life Southern Economic Journal C 2
2006 Behavioral Probabilities Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 2
2006 National survey evidence on disasters and relief: Risk beliefs, self-interest, and compassion Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 2
2006 Natural disaster risks: An introduction Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 1
2006 The catastrophic effects of natural disasters on insurance markets Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 2
2005 Value of a Statistical Life: Relative Position vs. Relative Age American Economic Review S 2
2003 The Value of a Statistical Life: A Critical Review of Market Estimates throughout the World. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 2
2003 Sacrificing Civil Liberties to Reduce Terrorism Risks. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 2
2003 Racial Differences in Labor Market Values of a Statistical Life. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 1
2002 The Market Value of Reducing Cancer Risk: Hedonic Housing Prices with Changing Information Southern Economic Journal C 3
2001 Cigarette Smokers As Job Risk Takers Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
2000 Smoking Risks in Spain: Part III--Determinants of Smoking Behavior. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 6
2000 Smoking Risks in Spain: Part I--Perception of Risks to the Smoker. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 6
2000 Smoking Risks in Spain: Part II--Perceptions of Environmental Tobacco Smoke Externalities. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 6
2000 An Iterative Choice Approach to Valuing Clean Lakes, Rivers, and Streams. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 4
2000 Private Values Of Risk Tradeoffs At Superfund Sites: Housing Market Evidence On Learning About Risk Review of Economics and Statistics A 3
1999 Are Risk Regulators Rational? Evidence from Hazardous Waste Cleanup Decisions American Economic Review S 2
1999 The Governmental Composition of the Insurance Costs of Smoking. Journal of Law and Economics B 1
1999 Smoking Status and Public Responses to Ambiguous Scientific Risk Evidence Southern Economic Journal C 3
1998 Estimation Of Revealed Probabilities And Utility Functions For Product Safety Decisions Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
1998 Alternative approaches to valuing intangible health losses: the evidence for multiple sclerosis1 Journal of Health Economics B 5
1998 The Distribution of the Insurance Market Effects of Tort Liability Reforms Brookings Papers on Economic Activity B 2
1997 Conservative versus Mean Risk Assessments: Implications for Superfund Policies Journal of Environmental Economics and Management A 3
1997 Measures of Mortality Risks. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 3
1997 Mortality Risk Perceptions: A Bayesian Reassessment. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 2
1996 Alternative Institutional Responses to Aspestos. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 1
1995 Workers' Compensation and Injury Duration: Evidence from a Natural Experiment. American Economic Review S 3
1995 Carcinogen Regulation: Risk Characteristics and the Synthetic Risk Bias. American Economic Review S 1
1995 Energy Taxation as a Policy Instrument to Reduce CO2 Emissions: A Net Benefit Analysis Journal of Environmental Economics and Management A 3
1995 Rates of Time Preference and Consumer Valuations of Automobile Safety and Fuel Efficiency. Journal of Law and Economics B 2
1994 The Fatality and Injury Costs of Expenditures. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 2
1994 Risk-Risk Analysis. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 1
1994 Environmentally Responsible Energy Pricing* The Energy Journal B 4
1993 Income Effects and the Value of Health Journal of Human Resources A 2
1993 The Effect of 1980s Tort Reform Legislation on General Liability and Medical Malpractice Insurance. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 4
1993 The Risky Business of Insurance Pricing. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 1
1993 Product Liability, Research and Development, and Innovation. Journal of Political Economy S 2
1992 Bayesian Decisions with Ambiguous Belief Aversion. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 2
1991 Estimation of State-Dependent Utility Functions Using Survey Data. Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
1991 Pricing environmental health risks: survey assessments of risk-risk and risk-dollar trade-offs for chronic bronchitis Journal of Environmental Economics and Management A 3
1991 Age Variations in Risk Perceptions and Smoking Decisions. Review of Economics and Statistics A 1
1990 Utility Functions That Depend on Health Status: Estimates and Economic Implications. American Economic Review S 2
1990 Cigarette Smoking, Seatbelt Use, and Differences in Wage-Risk Tradeoffs Journal of Human Resources A 2
1990 Sources of Inconsistency in Societal Responses to Health Risks. American Economic Review S 1
1990 Discounting environmental health risks: New evidence and policy implications Journal of Environmental Economics and Management A 2
1990 Long-term Environmental Risks. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 1
1990 Models for Estimating Discount Rates for Long-term Health Risks Using Labor Market Data. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 2
1990 Effectiveness of the EPA's Regulatory Enforcement: The Case of Industrial Effluent Standards. Journal of Law and Economics B 2
1990 Do Smokers Underestimate Risks? Journal of Political Economy S 1
1989 Rates of time preference and valuations of the duration of life Journal of Public Economics A 2
1989 Prospective Reference Theory: Toward an Explanation of the Paradoxes. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 1
1988 Product Liability and Regulation: Establishing the Appropriate Institutional Division of Labor. American Economic Review S 1
1988 Irreversible environmental investments with uncertain benefit levels Journal of Environmental Economics and Management A 1
1988 Paired comparison and contingent valuation approaches to morbidity risk valuation Journal of Environmental Economics and Management A 3
1988 Editor's Introduction. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 1
1988 Consumer Processing of Hazard Warning Information. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 3
1987 Workers' Compensation: Wage Effects, Benefit Inadequacies, and the Value of Health Losses. Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
1986 The Risks and Rewards of Criminal Activity: A Comprehensive Test of Criminal Deterrence. Journal of Labor Economics A 1
1985 Are Individuals Bayesian Decision Makers? American Economic Review S 1
1985 A Bayesian perspective on biases in risk perception Economics Letters C 1
1985 Environmental policy choice with an uncertain chance of irreversibility Journal of Environmental Economics and Management A 1
1985 Consumer Behavior and the Safety Effects of Product Safety Regulation. Journal of Law and Economics B 1
1984 The Lulling Effect: The Impact of Child-Resistant Packaging on Aspirin and Analgesic Ingestions. American Economic Review S 1
1984 Adaptive Responses to Chemical Labeling: Are Workers Bayesian Decision Makers? American Economic Review S 2
1984 Regulating uncertain health hazards when there is changing risk information Journal of Health Economics B 1
1984 Economic Contests: Comparative Reward Schemes. Journal of Labor Economics A 3
1983 Frameworks for Analyzing the Effects of Risk and Environmental Regulations on Productivity. American Economic Review S 1
1980 Imperfect job risk information and optimal workmen's compensation benefits Journal of Public Economics A 1
1980 A Theory of Job Shopping: A Bayesian Perspective Quarterly Journal of Economics S 1
1980 Sex Differences in Worker Quitting. Review of Economics and Statistics A 1
1978 Wealth Effects and Earnings Premiums for Job Hazards. Review of Economics and Statistics A 1
1976 Environmental policy choice under uncertainty Journal of Environmental Economics and Management A 2