This site employs a simple utilitarian model to calculate your worth. If you want to cite this site, use this citation. We will be posting a detail paper soon.

Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani, "Life, Earnings and Beyond", Working Paper, March 2009

 Here is the basic model.

Where

Human cost of few world incidents

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