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Willingness to Pay for Car Safety: Evidence from Sweden

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This study estimates a marginal willingness to pay (WTP) function for a road-mortality risk reduction. Observed marginal WTP from the Swedish car market is used and found to be positively correlated with the baseline risk of the cars. No statistically significant relationships between examined owner attributes, e.g. wealth and background risk, and marginal WTP are found. When comparing the estimated monetary value of a non-marginal risk reduction derived from the integral of the marginal WTP-function with an estimate based on marginal WTP we find, in line with expectations, that the difference between the estimates is negligible for smaller risk reductions and small, 4–10%, also for relatively large risk reductions.

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Andersson, H. Willingness to Pay for Car Safety: Evidence from Sweden. Environ Resource Econ 41, 579–594 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-008-9213-0

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