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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London
Harvard University Press
2010, ©2008
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| Series: | The Family and Public Policy
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Children and the economy
- Commitments and capabilities
- Defining the costs of children
- Children and family budgets / with Tamara Ohler
- Children outside the household
- Accounting for family time / with Jayoung Yoon
- Valuing family work
- Subsidizing parents
- Public spending on children's education and health
- Who should pay for the kids?