Contents: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on the Educational Attainment and Adult Earnings of Canadian Women by Christopher Bruce and Daniel Gordon This article concerns sexual abuse cases and the difficult task of determining the impact that the harm has had on the plaintiff’s earning capacity. Christopher Bruce and his colleague from the University […]
Read More...Year: 2007
The Impact of Poor Health on Retirement Age
In this article Christopher Bruce examines the evidence supporting a claim that poor health will lead to earlier retirement.
Read More...Fatal Accident Calculations Under the New Legislation
In this article Kelly Rathje discusses the treatment of survivor pension benefits in fatal auto accidents, in light of the new rules defined by Alberta’s Insurance Amendment Act.
Read More...The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on the Educational Attainment and Adult Earnings of Canadian Women
This article concerns sexual abuse cases and the difficult task of determining the impact that the harm has had on the plaintiff’s earning capacity. Christopher Bruce and his colleague from the University of Calgary, Daniel Gordon, found that, on average, sexual abuse is not associated with lower educational levels or lower adult incomes among victims.
Read More...Spring 2007 issue of the Expert Witness newsletter (volume 12, issue 1)
Contents: Forecasting the long-term interest rate on Government of Canada bonds: “market-based” versus “conservative” investment by Christopher Bruce In the article Christopher Bruce examines a subtle issue relating to interest rates. He explains the difference between the interest rates realised by buying bonds and holding them to maturity, and selling and re-buying before maturity. These […]
Read More...Using the HALS/PALS data sets to estimate a loss of income
In the article Derek Aldridge discusses the potential usefulness of Statistics Canada’s HALS/PALS disability statistics when attempting to estimate a person’s loss of income. His opinion is that while one can use these data sets to predict a loss of income, in most cases these predictions are not helpful for our purposes.
Read More...Forecasting the long-term interest rate on Government of Canada bonds: “market-based” versus “conservative” investment
In the article Christopher Bruce examines a subtle issue relating to interest rates. He explains the difference between the interest rates realised by buying bonds and holding them to maturity, and selling and re-buying before maturity. These approaches will result in different estimates of historical interest rates.
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