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Risk-utility Test

The "Risk-Utility Test" is a legal standard in product liability law that determines whether a design defect exists by weighing the foreseeable risks of harm posed by a product against its utility and benefits to users and the public.

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2017–2026

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Risk-utility AnalysisRisk-utility Balancing Test

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17

Are Risk-Attitudes Related Across Domains and Response Modes?

Paul J. H. Schoemaker · Management Science · 1990 · 215 citations

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A Framework for Evaluating the Utility of Data Altered to Protect Confidentiality

Alan F. Karr, Christine N. Kohnen, Anna Oganian et al. · The American Statistician · 2006 · 195 citations

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The Economics of Product Safety

Walter Y. Oi · The Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science · 1973 · 174 citations

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Youth and risk: age differences in risky driving, risk perception, and risk utility

Brian A. Jonah, Nancy E. Dawson · Alcohol, drugs and driving · 1987 · 137 citations

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Reforming Products Liability

John R. Lott, W. Kip Viscusi · Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · 1992 · 114 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. AF
    Alan F. Karr

    National Institute of Statistical Sciences, United States

    4 publications · 338 citations

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  2. JP
    Jerome P. Reiter

    Duke University, United States

    3 publications · 295 citations

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  3. AS
    Ashish Sanil

    Berry & Associates (United States), United States

    2 publications · 278 citations

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  4. CX
    Chang Xiong

    Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

    1 publications · 10 citations

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  5. AO
    Anna Oganian

    Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain

    1 publications · 195 citations

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Institutions

15

  1. National Institute of Statistical Sciences

    Washington D.C., United States

    3 h-index

    9 publications

    1.1K citations

  2. Illinois Institute of Technology

    Chicago, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    18 citations

  3. Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, United States

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    51 citations

  4. University of Southampton

    Southampton, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    23 citations

  5. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

    Haifa, Israel

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    18 citations

  6. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    51 citations

  7. Chicago Kent College of Law

    Chicago, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    18 citations

  8. RTI International

    Durham, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    17 citations

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  1. Journal of Economic Theory

    JET · 1 publications · 18 citations

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  2. The Review of Economics and Statistics

    1 publications · 31 citations

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  5. Alcohol, drugs and driving

    1 publications · 137 citations

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