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Valuing Children rethinking the Economics of the Family

While parents spend significant time as well as money on children, most estimates of the "cost" of children ignore the value of this time. Folbre provides a startlingly high but entirely credible estimate of the value of parental time per child by asking what it would cost to purchase a co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Folbre, Nancy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London Harvard University Press 2010, ©2008
Series:The Family and Public Policy
Subjects:
Familienökonomie
Familienbeihife
Families > economic Aspects > united States
Child Rearing > economic Aspects > united States
Households > economic Aspects > united States
Family Allowances > united States
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Collection: DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:While parents spend significant time as well as money on children, most estimates of the "cost" of children ignore the value of this time. Folbre provides a startlingly high but entirely credible estimate of the value of parental time per child by asking what it would cost to purchase a comparable substitute for it.
Physical Description:viii, 235 pages
ISBN:978-0-674-03364-1

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