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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Measuring Health<br />

Before discussing optimal insurance, useful to define a measure of<br />

health consumption<br />

Higher medical expenditure not equivalent to more “health.”<br />

Starting point: mortality.<br />

Need a monetary measure → measure value of life.<br />

Literature estimates this using many methods (Aldy and Viscusi 2003)<br />

Contingent valuation.<br />

Wage premia for risky jobs.<br />

Price of smoke detectors.<br />

Commonly used figure: $100,000 per year of healthy life.<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 6: Social Insurance 176 / 207

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