Recent Professional Activity Over the Last  6 Years (Papers) to 10 Years (Invited Presentations and Discussant/Panelist Service):

Dr. Skoog has been invited to present research of his own, or in collaboration with his De Paul colleague Professor James E. Ciecka, at numerous professional meetings over the last few years. Sometimes these have entailed comments on other's work, sometimes as a panelist to discuss issues in forensic economics, and at other times to present state-of-the-art research in worklife expectancy issues.

Below is a set of invited presentations or working papers given or scheduled at such meetings.

“The Dynamic Structure of the Present Value Function,” paper to be presented at the 2008 ASSA/American Economics Association meetings, New Orleans, LA (with James Ciecka), January 5, 2008

“Full and Part Time Worklife Expectancy”, paper presented at the 2006 American Economics Association meetings, Boston, MA (with James Ciecka and Kurt Krueger), paper presented at the January, 2006 ASSA/American Economics Association meetings in Boston, MA, January 7, 2006

“The Economics of Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation: The State of Illinois,” (with James Ciecka) paper presented to the Western Economics Association annual meetings, San Francisco, July 8, 2005

“Years of Additional Life and Annuity Inequalities: Old and New Results,” (with James Ciecka)  paper presented at the annual AAEFE meetings in Las Vegas, NV March 31, 2005. (AAEFE is the Ameican Academy of Economic and Financial Experts)

“Probability Mass Functions and Their Characteristics for Years in Retirement, and Years to Retirement Within the Markov Model” (with James Ciecka), presented at the annual the ASSA/American Economics Association meetings in Philadelphia, January 8, 2005.

“The Allocation of Worklife Expectancy and the Analysis of Front and Uniform Loading” (with James Ciecka) invited presentation for Fall, 2004 AAEFE meetings in Nashville, Tennessee

"Probability Mass Functions and Their Characteristics for Years in Retirement, and Years to Retirement Within the Markov Model", paper presented at the 2004 AAEFE meetings, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2, 2004

"Reconsidering and Extending the Conventional/Demographic and LPE Models: The LPd and LPi Restricted Markov Models", paper presented at the 2004 ASSA/American Economics Association meetings, San Diego, California.

"Probability Mass Functions for 'Non-Markov' Models of Additional Years of Labor Market Activity," with James Ciecka, paper presented at the 2003 Western Economics Association meetings, Denver, Colorado, July, 2003.

"The Magic Box: Logical Relations Among Present Value Variables" (with Gerald Martin), paper presented at the April 2003 American Association of Economics and Financial Experts (AAEFE) Annual meetings.

"Parameter Uncertainty in the Estimation of the Markov Model of Labor Force Activity: Known Error Rates Satisfying Daubert" (with James Ciecka), paper presented at the April 2003 American Association of Economics and Financial Experts (AAEFE) Annual meetings.

"Generalizations of the Increment-Decrement Model", paper presented at the 2003 ASSA/American Economics Association meetings, Washington, D.C. Saturday January 4, 2003

"Probability Mass Functions for Years to Final Separation from the Labor Force Induced by the Markov Model," paper presented at the 2003 ASSA/American Economics Association meetings, Washington, D.C., Saturday January 4, 2003

"Probability Mass Functions for Additional Years of Labor Market Activity Induced by the Markov (Increment-Decrement) Model" (with James Ciecka), paper presented at the April 2002 American Association of Economics and Financial Experts (AAEFE) Annual meetings, Las Vegas, Nevada.

"State Aggregation in the Increment-Decrement Model: The General Conditions, With an Application to Disability', paper presented to the Western Economics Association annual meetings, Seattle, 2002.

"A Present Value Function for Human Capital Generalizing Worklife", paper presented at the paper presented at the April 2002 American Association of Economics and Financial Experts (AAEFE) Annual meetings, Las Vegas, Nevada.

"Worklife Expectancy: Theoretical Results," paper presented at the 2002 ASSA/American Economics Association meetings, Washington, D.C., Friday January 4, 2002

Invited Presenter or Invited Discussant Sessions, Mid 1998 - Fall, 2007

“Worklife Expectancies of Railroad Workers and Obtaining Set-Offs of RRB Disability Annuities,” invited presentation to the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel, 2007 Fall Meeting, Austin, Texas, October 12, 2007

“The Impact of Disabilities on Earnings,” discussed paper of Cara Brown presented at the 2007 Western Economics Association meetings, Seattle, WA June 30, 2007

“LPE (Living, Participation, Employment) Models,” invited presentation to the American Rehabilitation Economics, Pittsburgh, PA May 19, 2007

“The Effect of the Death of a Parent on the Future Earnings of a Minor Child (Usingthe National Longitidinal Survey of Youth Data,” discussed paper of John Kane, Rick Gaskins, James Rodgers and Lawrence Spizman presented at the 2007 Eastern Economics Association meetings, New York City, NY February 24, 2007

“The Use of the ACS Data for Worklife Disability Tables,” invited oral presentation/discussion presented at the 2006 American Acadeny of Economic and Financial Experts Fall meetings, Salt Lake City, Utah, October, 2006 

Discussant at session on forensic economists' reports, at October, 2005  Santa Fe, NM  Autumn AAEFE Meetings

"Worklife - Years of Activity and Expectancy: Extended Theory and Extended Tables" Invited Keynote Speaker at the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals (IARP) - Forensic Section annual meetings, November 12-14, 2004 in San Antonio, Texas.

"Tables (of Gamboa, VE, VEI) Purporting to Measure Disabled Worklife Expectancy" Invited Speaker at the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals (IARP)- Forensic Section annual meetings, November 12-14, 2004 in San Antonio, Texas.

"Recent Developments in Worklife Expectancy and Years to Final Separation" with James Ciecka, invited speakers to the American Rehabiltation Economics Association (AREA) 2004 Annual Spring Conference, Reno, Nevada, May 14-16, 2004.

"Damages Analysis in Railroad Personal Injury Litigation" panelist with Thomas R. Ireland, James E. Ciecka, and B. Clyde Hutchinson, at the American Rehabilitation Economics Association (AREA) 2004 Annual Spring Conference, Reno, Nevada May 14-16, 2004.

"Forensic Economics Practice and Research: Ask Some Grumpy Old FE's" panelist with Matthew McCabe, Lawrence Spizman and Frank Tinari at the Eastern Economics Association Meetings, February 21, 2004, Washington, D.C.

"Recent Developments in Worklife Expectancy" with James Ciecka; invited presenters at the Fall, 2003 AAEFE Meetings in Santa Fe, New Mexico October, 2003

"Recent Developments in Worklife Expectancy" with Edward Foster; invited presenters at the Fall, 2003 AAEFE Meetings in Santa Fe, New Mexico October, 2003

"Evaluation of Time Expectancy Models," panel chaired by Tyrus Bowles, organized by Rick Gaskins, with Barry Ben-Zion, and Patrick Fitzgerald, session at the 2003 Western Economics Association meetings, Denver, Colorado, July, 2003.

"Roundtable: Ethics Symposium: A Discussion of the Proposed New Statement of Ethical Principles," panel chaired and organized by Manuel R. Smith, with Frank Tinari, Robert A. Male, Elizabeth A.W. Gunderson session at the 2002 Western Economics Association meetings, Seattle, Washington, June 30, 2002, 12:30-2:15.

"Roundtable: Issues in Disability and Worklife," panel chaired and organized by Thomas R. Ireland, chaired by John O. Ward, with Thomas W. Hale, Thomas R. Ireland, James D. Rodgers, session at the 2002 Western Economics Association meetings, Seattle, Washinton, July 1, 2002, 10:15-12:00.

"Disabled Worklife Disablility," invited to head up a team (with James E. Ciecka and James Rodgers), to criticize the "New Worklife Expectancy Tables" at the American Rehabilitation Economics Association Conference, May 18-20, 2001, at Reno, Nevada.

"Different Methods for Assessing Worklife Factors for Earnings Loss and Family Services," discussant (with James Rodgers, David Curry and Frank Tinari) on a panel at the ASSA/American Economics Association meetings, New Orleans, LA January 6, 2001

"Whither the National Debt - And Does It Make Any Difference?" discussant, paper by Mel Harju, session organized by Rober Male, chaired by Allan McCausland, session at the 2000 Western Economics Association meetings, Vancouver, Canada, June 30, 2000, 12:30-2:15.

"Ethics," panel chaired and organized by Thomas R. Ireland, with Charles de Seve, Stephen M. Horner, Robert A. Male and James D. Rodgers, session at the 1998 Western Economics Association meetings, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, June 30, 1998, 12:15-2:15.

Note: This list contains only those sessions for which I could find ready documentation. I believe that I participated in a few additional sessions as a panelist or chair at the meetings listed above.

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