| Introduction | |
| The interface between law and economics and forensic economics | p. 3 |
| The economic framework of personal injury/wrongful death damages | p. 14 |
| The impact of the Daubert decision on forensic economists | p. 28 |
| Neutrality and advocacy : a challenge for forensic economics | p. 39 |
| Statement of ethical principles and principles of professional practice | p. 56 |
| Statement of ethical principles | p. 57 |
| Code of Standards and Ethics | p. 58 |
| Statement of adherence to ethical principles annual renewal statement | p. 62 |
| Life expectancies for persons with medical risks | p. 65 |
| Life expectancy and the properties of survival data | p. 76 |
| Healthy life expectancy | p. 91 |
| The Markov assumption for worklife expectancy | p. 107 |
| The Markov (increment-decrement) model of labor force activity : new results beyond work-life expectancies | p. 124 |
| Female work experience : voluntary versus involuntary labor force activity | p. 145 |
| Exploring the possibility of worklife expectancies for specific disabilities | p. 157 |
| Work history in female earnings loss | p. 193 |
| Forecasting earnings losses of the disabled with the LPE method | p. 207 |
| The valuation of earning capacity definition, measurement and evidence | p. 215 |
| On the interpretation of age-earnings profiles | p. 235 |
| Average change in wages : the ECI advantage | p. 250 |
| Loss of earning capacity in the case of a farmer | p. 264 |
| An update of the educational attainment model for a minor child | p. 275 |
| The investment approach to parental loss in the death of a child : a guide to understanding alternative versions | p. 287 |
| The inclusion of fringe benefits in estimates of earnings loss : a comparative analysis | p. 305 |
| Valuing losses of pension benefits | p. 315 |
| Forecasting medical costs in tort cases : the role of the economist | p. 345 |
| Savings offsets in future care costs for the severely injured : new thoughts on an unsettled issue | p. 362 |
| Discounting the cost of future care for persons with disabilities | p. 369 |
| The forensic economics of medical monitoring protocols | p. 378 |
| Alternative approaches to tax adjustments in appraising economic loss | p. 393 |
| A statistical analysis of federal income tax rate stability over time and implications for valuing lifetime earnings | p. 405 |
| Discounting in forensic economics | p. 421 |
| The net discount rate : logical relations among present value variables | p. 428 |
| Historical averages and the "real rate" of interest | p. 442 |
| Real discounting and inflation in indexed treasury securities | p. 450 |
| Are net discount ratios stationary? : the implications for present value calculations | p. 460 |
| Historical net discount rates and future economic losses : refuting the common practice | p. 468 |
| Accounting for age-earnings profiles in net discount rates | p. 492 |
| Total offset method : is it appropriate? : evidence from ECI data | p. 507 |
| Intra-year discounting made easy : a comment | p. 524 |
| The significance of the distinction between a life annuity and an annuity certain for a term equal to life expectancy : a note | p. 526 |
| Prejudgement interest : issues and case studies | p. 529 |
| Patton-Nelson personal consumption tables 2000-2001 : updated and revised | p. 541 |
| Estimating personal consumption with and without savings in wrongful death cases | p. 548 |
| Conceptual and empirical issues in calculating post-retirement consumption | p. 558 |
| Some new estimates of self-consumption allowances using service flows | p. 579 |
| Determination of personal consumption expenditures in fatal accident actions : a note | p. 589 |
| Market valuation of household production | p. 597 |
| Opportunity cost vs. replacement cost in a lost service analysis | p. 609 |
| Household services : toward a more comprehensive measure | p. 619 |
| Hedonic damages in personal injury and wrongful death litigation | p. 635 |
| The value of life : has voodoo economics come to the courts? | p. 656 |
| Misuses and proper uses of hedonic values of life in legal contexts | p. 671 |
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