Viscusi quoted by The Chicago Tribune

Professor Viscusi, expert on the efficacy of warning labels, is quoted by Steve Chapman for The Chicago Tribune in "Big Brother Gets Really Ugly: New Cigarette Labels are Enough to Make You Ill." [Read the Chicago Tribune article]

 

Viscusi quoted by The New York Times 

Professor Viscusi is quoted by Thomas Kaplan for The New York Times in "Lessons for Albany on Malpractice Limits." [Read the New York Times article]

 

The New York Times credits government increases in the value of life to W. Kip Viscusi

Professor Viscusi's work on the statistical value of life is featured in "As U.S. Agencies Put More Value on a Life, Businesses Fret," by Binyamin Appelbaum. Agencies under the Obama administration are raising the value of a life based on Professor Viscusi's research. [Read the New York Times article]

 

Hersch and Viscusi release study on job risks and wage compensation for immigrant workers

Professors Hersch and Viscusi find that Mexican immigrants work in jobs with higher fatality risks and receive little wage compensation for these risks. Non-Mexican immigrants face similar labor market conditions as U.S. natives. [Read more]

 

W. Kip Viscusi's Letter to the Editor: Reply to 'Cass Sunstein Wants to Nudge Us'

Professor Viscusi takes issue with the New York Times Magazine's characterization of labor market estimates of the value of life. [Read the New York Times Magazine letter]

 

W. Kip Viscusi on Room for Debate: The New York Times News forum

Professor Viscusi gives his take on the topic "Do We Tolerate Too Many Traffic Deaths?" [Read the New York Times forum]

 

W. Kip Viscusi's paper with Del Rossi cited in Las Vegas Review-Journal

Professor Viscusi's paper with Alison Del Rossi, "The Changing Landscape of Blockbuster Punitive Damages Awards," is cited by the Las Vegas Review-Journal in "Hepatitis C Lawsuit: Jury Awards Henderson Couple $500 Million Award." [Read the article]

 

The Viscusi Cocktail

Portland mixologists Jacob Grier and Lance Mayhew have named a cocktail after Professor Viscusi!  [Read the story] [Get the recipe]

 

VU Researcher Studies What it Takes to Change Recycling Behavior, Vanderbilt myVU News Service

Read the press release for W. Kip Viscusi's paper with Joel Huber, Jason Bell, and Caroline Cecot, "Discontinuous Behavioral Responses to Recycling Laws and Plastic Water Bottle Deposits."

 

W. Kip Viscusi quoted by The New York Times

Read W. Kip Viscusi's take on the Welsh texting dangers video that has "gone viral." Viscusi explains that the graphic nature of the video may obscure the warning message.

 

W. Kip Viscusi quoted in Vanderbilt Medicine magazine

Read W. Kip Viscusi on the value of life in the Winter 2009 edition of Vanderbilt Medicine magazine.

 

W. Kip Viscusi cited in Cato Daily Podcast

Listen to the June 12, 2009 Cato Daily Podcast: "Will Sound Science Govern Tobacco Regulation?" featuring Peter Van Doren. (mp3)

 

Press Release for "The Devaluation of Life"

Read the press release for W. Kip Viscusi's paper "The Devaluation of Life," recently published in Regulation & Governance.

 

W. Kip Viscusi quoted in San Francisco Examiner

Sally C. Pipes, President & CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, quotes Professor Viscusi's research on cigarette taxes in her op-ed piece "Soda-tax Proposal Should Fizzle Out in Congress."

 

W. Kip Viscusi on SSRN

Professor Viscusi is a leading contributor to the Vanderbilt Law & Economics Working Paper Series on SSRN. New additions include:

• Rethinking the Economics of Disaster Insurance Protection
• The Devaluation of Life
• Immigrant Status and the Value of Statistical Life, with Joni Hersch 
• Valuing Risks of Death from Terrorism and Natural Disasters
• Punitive Damages by Numbers: Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, with Joni Hersch
• The Effects of Tort Reform on Medical Malpractice Insurers' Ultimate Losses, with Patricia Born and Tom Baker
• Heteregenous Rates of Time Preference and the Decision to Smoke, with Robert L. Scharff

 

W. Kip Viscusi quoted by Associated Press

Erica Werner interviews Professor Viscusi in "FACT CHECK: Do smokers cost society money?"

 

W. Kip Viscusi quoted in Congressional Quarterly Weekly

Professor Viscusi responds to a query about Cass R. Sunstein, the new head of OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

 

W. Kip Viscusi quoted on front page of Washington Post

Professor Viscusi has been quoted in the Washington Post front-page feature "Cosmic Markdown: EPA Says Life is Worth Less," by David A. Fahrenthold.

 

W. Kip Viscusi quoted by Associated Press

Professor Viscusi has been quoted in the AP Impact story “An American Life Worth Less Today,” which highlights the Environmental Protection Agency’s reduction in the value of statistical life by nearly $1 million since 2003. Viscusi says the cut and the procedure by which the reduction was reckoned “don’t make sense.” Read the Associated Press story.

 

W. Kip Viscusi writes for Forbes

Professor Viscusi wrote "A Price on Your Head" for Forbes magazine's On My Mind column.

 

Men's Health quotes W. Kip Viscusi

The popular magazine Men's Health asks Professor Viscusi about perception of health risks.

 

The New York Times cites W. Kip Viscusi

The New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks cites Professor Viscusi's research on risk perception among smokers.

 

Interview in Region Focus

Q&A with W. Kip Viscusi about risk, the value of life, and measures aimed at improving public safety. The interview appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of Region Focus, a quarterly publication of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Virginia.

 

Grants

W. Kip Viscusi garners second EPA grant of 2007

Vanderbilt University has received an EPA award for $120,000 for a project titled “The Appropriateness of Panel Based Findings.” University Distinguished Professor W. Kip Viscusi is the Project Director. The study will determine the effectiveness of panel based internet survey administration as well as the accuracy of survey results. The project will involve collaborative work with Duke University and will be completed by 2011.

 

W. Kip Viscusi Garners USDA and EPA Grants

The Economics Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded Vanderbilt University a grant in conjunction with Resources for the Future, a non-profit, non-partisan think-tank based in Washington, D.C., to study mad cow disease. Vanderbilt’s share of the funding for this project, "Managing Invasive Species Risks,” is $78,439. The project will be completed this year.

Vanderbilt University will also receive an EPA STAR award for $675,173 for a study of the economic value of morbidity risks in drinking water in a project titled "The Economic Value of Health Improvements to Drinking Water."  This project will involve collaborative work with Duke University and will be completed in 2009.

Vanderbilt University has received an EPA award for $120,000 for a project titled “The Appropriateness of Panel Based Findings.” The study will determine the effectiveness of panel based internet survey administration as well as the accuracy of survey results. The project will involve collaborative work with Duke University and will be completed by 2011.

W. Kip Viscusi is Project Director for each of these grant-assisted research projects.

 

Recent Awards

2006 Distinguished Economist of the Year Award, Kentucky Economics Association, and commissioned as Kentucky Colonel.

2006 Ronald H. Coase Prize, University of Chicago Law School, for article "Recollection Bias and the Combat of Terrorism," with Richard J. Zeckhauser, Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 34, No.1 (January 2005), pp. 27-55.