Research & Publications

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.

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The Economics Editor covers such topics as;

• Alberta After-tax Calculations as of Jan 26, 2004
• Childcare and home support worker rates
• Contingencies
• Census data (2001)
• Cost of Future Care
• Cost of Raising Children
• Disability rates
• Discount Rates
• Fringe Benefits (positive contingencies)
• Family Relief Act Claims
• Fatal Accident (Loss of Dependency)
• Gender Earnings Issues
• Health & Activity Limitation Survey (HALS)
• Housekeeping replacement rates
• Household Spending
• Impact of Disability
• Inflation / CPI
• Ontario No-Fault Claims (AIRSA 1996)
• Personal Consumption Rates (PCR's)
• Pensions
• Professional Athlete Draft Prediction
• Remarriage contingency
• Retirement
• RRSP Investment Income
• Self-Employment
• Sexual Assault & Harassment
• Survey of Household Spending (SHS) 2000 Data
• Tax Gross-Up
• Time use measurement and data

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