I spent thirty years teaching economics and statistics, and a career’s worth of side projects building the tools that calculate them for a living.
I started in forensic economics early in my career, working alongside Dwight Steward — the practice he kept building became EmployStats. These days I design and manage the calculators behind injuryeconomics.com, and now maritalvaluation.com.
WHAT I ACTUALLY DO, IN THREE HONEST SENTENCES
Injury & Job Loss
I built and manage the calculation engine attorneys use to estimate lost income after an injury or job loss — the same math either side would use. → injuryeconomics.com
Divorce & Business
My newest project: a calculator for valuing a business caught up in a divorce, built on the same methodology, wherever they lead. → maritalvaluation.com
Wage & Hour
Underpaid workers and the math behind proving it, or not. Still in the works — read the early thinking below in the meantime. (Coming soon)
THE BORING BUT RELEVANT PART
M. D. Berg, Ph.D., Economics
I spent the first stretch of my career doing forensic economics work alongside Dwight Steward, back when neither of us knew it would become EmployStats. After about ten years, the travel and case load were taking too much from my family, so I stepped back and put my energy into a university career instead — thirty-plus years of teaching economics and statistics.
I’ve since retired from the university. These days I’m back with the EmployStats team in a different seat — I manage the data processing side and help build the calculators behind sites like injuryeconomics.com and maritalvaluation.com. The case work itself goes to younger PhDs on the team; I’m more useful these days behind the curtain.
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