James K. Hammitt

Emory University — United States

Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences

62h-index12.3kcitations351works2.12yr avg
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Research Topics

Economic and Environmental Valuation(116), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life(110), Global Health Care Issues(52), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics(48), Climate Change Policy and Economics(32)

Publications351 total

The impact of crisis exposure on nuclear power acceptance in China
Fundamental Research·2025Open Access
Fair Innings: An Empirical Test
Health Economics·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
<p>Empirical bounds on the value of improved health</p>
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
Issue Information ‐ TOC
Risk Analysis·2024Open Access
From Benefit–Cost Analysis to Social Welfare: A Pragmatic Approach
Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Economic Evaluation for Health Priority-Setting: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Benefit-Cost Analysis Primer
SSRN Electronic Journal·2024Open Access
The Right Numeraire or the Just Weights? How to Make BCA Rational and Fair
Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Improvements on valuing gains in health status with stated preferences
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials·2023Open Access
Improvements on valuing gains in health status with stated preferences
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials·2023
Age And The Value Of Life
2023· 4 cited
Monetary values of increasing life expectancy: Sensitivity to shifts of the survival curve
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty·2023· 9 citedOpen Access
Consistent valuation of a reduction in mortality risk using values per life, life year, and quality‐adjusted life year
Health Economics·2023· 25 cited
How to Balance Lives and Livelihoods in a Pandemic
2023· 7 cited
Reappraising the public health benefits conferred by environmental policy: Considerations for an aging society
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society·2022· 2 citedOpen Access
Is survival a luxury good? Income elasticity of the value per statistical life
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty·2022· 3 cited
Downside risk aversion vs decreasing absolute risk aversion: an intuitive exposition
Theory and Decision·2022· 2 cited
Hurricane risk perceptions and housing market responses: the pricing effects of risk-perception factors and hurricane characteristics
Natural Hazards·2022· 5 cited
Prevention, treatment, and palliative care: The relative value of health improvements under alternative evaluation frameworks
Journal of Health Economics·2022· 3 citedOpen Access
Valuing non-marginal changes in mortality and morbidity risk
Journal of Health Economics·2022· 6 citedOpen Access
Trends in Author-Reported Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds in the United States from 1995 to 2018: Implications for Discount Rates
Medical Decision Making·2022· 1 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Lisa A. Robinson(7), Jin‐Tan Liu(6), John S. Evans(5), Ying Zhou(4), Jonathan I. Levy(4), Peter J. Neumann(3), Meng‐Wen Tsou(3), John D. Graham(2), Lei Huang(2), Jun Bi(2), Yang Liu(2), Lucy O’Keeffe(2), Milton C. Weinstein(2), Karen M. Kuntz(2), Shin‐Yi Chou(2), Jung‐Der Wang(2), Jin-Long Liu(2), Jin-Tan Liu(2), Edgar G. Hertwich(2), Pamela R. D. Williams(1)