Abstract:Policymakers in low and lower‐middle income countries often face difficult trade‐offs between saving lives and livelihoods, as exemplified by the COVID‐19 pandemic. Yet, evidence regarding the preferences of the population is often lacking in such settings. In this paper, I estimate the value of an additional year of life expectancy in Tanzania using information on subjective well‐being and population mortality. More specifically, I combine age‐sex specific subnational estimates of remaining life expectancy wi… Show more
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