Title of article
Are smoke detectors as effective as the public health literature reports?
Author/Authors
Christopher Garbacz، نويسنده , , Herbert G. Thompson Jr.، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2007
Pages
6
From page
11
To page
16
Abstract
Our multivariate model finds smoke detector impact on the fire death rate has an elasticity of − 0.10, similar to Garbacz [Garbacz, C., 1989. Smoke Detector Effectiveness And The Value Of Saving A Life, Economics Letters, 31, 281–286.] using pre-saturation detector data. Public health estimates are − 0.45. Additionally, we find that cigarette smoking has ten times the impact of detectors.
Keywords
Smoke detector effectiveness , Accident models , Value of life , Insurance
Journal title
Economics Letters
Serial Year
2007
Journal title
Economics Letters
Record number
436317
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