Research & Publications

Brown's Economic Damages Newsletter
(formerly "The Economics Editor")

Brown Economic Consulting issues a monthly electronic newsletter, free of charge, to clients who subscribe via email. The newsletter has a 1 to 3 page description of a timely research topic on forensic economics; a table for updating non-pecuniary awards and Statistics Canada's inflation rates and unemployment rates for several main metropolitan areas in Canada.

Brown's Economic Damages Newsletter covers such topics as;

• Childcare and home support worker rates
• Contingencies
• Census data
• Cost of care
• Cost of raising children
• Disability rates
• Discount rates / Interest rates
• Divorce contingency
• Executive compensation
• Facial disfigurement
• Fringe benefits (positive contingencies)
• Fatal accident (Loss of Dependency)
• Gender earnings issues
• "Health & Activity Limitation Survey" (HALS)
• Housekeeping replacement rates
• Household spending
• Impact of disability
• Inflation / CPI
• Life expectancy
• Mortality contingency
• Loss of insurability
• Ontario No-Fault Claims (AIRSA 1996)
• "Participation & Activity Limitation Survey" (PALS)
• Personal Consumption Rates (PCRs)
• Pension Benefits
• Professional Athlete Draft Prediction
• Remarriage contingency
• Retirement ages
• RRSP investment income
• Self-Employment
• Sexual assault
• Survey of Household Spending (SHS) 2000 Data
• Tax topics and tax gross-up
• Time use measurement and data
• Wage inflation
• Wage trends
• Working life expectancy

If you are interested in any of the above topics or require more information, please feel free to contact us.