Why the Forensic Economic Valuation of Nighttime Protection and Care Services Has No Merit

This paper critiques ‘‘Estimating the Full Value of Household Services Damages: Inclusion of Nighttime Protection and Care Services,’’ by James A. Mills and Bernard Pettingill, published in The Earnings Analyst in 2019. It refutes the idea that there is a third category of household services – Nighttime and Protection and Care services – purportedly undiscovered or overlooked by forensic economists. Mills and Pettingill misinterpret the Dollar Value of a Day:2019 Dollar Valuation and draw specious comparisons with firefighters, security guards, and home health care workers in their attempt to impute economic value to time spent sleeping.