A Comment on “Self-Consumption in Wrongful Death Cases: Decedent or Family Income?”

Kurt V. Krueger

Journal of Forensic Economics, 2013, vol. 24, issue 1, 109-112

Abstract: In a recent article in the Journal of Forensic Economics, Michael L. Brookshire and Frank L. Slesnick presented their analysis of the husband or wife decedent self-consumption literature. This comment presents two counter-arguments to their self-consumption methodology which renders their preference to the family income approach inconclusive. I first review the Brookshire and Slesnick make-whole damages doctrine and then I discuss the problems with forecasting household income.

JEL-codes: K13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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