위험 환경요소에 대한 통계적 생명가치 금액 추정: 교통사고 사망률 감소를 중심으로

Costs of accidents makeup an important part of the total cost of traffic. A substantial proportion of accidents costs is related to fatal accidents that result in traffic death. Therefore, it is possible to save the cost by reduce traffic accidents. Korea has grown fast with regard to economy and become a member of OECD, but the traffic safety was not as good as the developed countries and high traffic fatality was almost 13 per 100 thousand people. The Korean government have spent a lot of budget to improve traffic safety. However, it is hard to estimate the benefit for the government efforts. This study estimates the VSL(value of a statistical life) as well as WTP(willingness to pay) for mortality risk reduction in traffic accident with the conjoint method in order to estimate the benefit of traffic safety policies. The web-base survey was conducted and 1025 korean adults responded the conjoint questions. The estimated marginal effect of mortality risk reduction per 100 thousand people is 230 thousand won per household. The estimated VSL from mortality risk reduction due to better traffic safety is about 698 billion won (6.3million dollar). Comparing with the previous study estimates, the estimated VSL in this study is high which may be caused by the application of a stated preference method.