Valuing Children
Rethinking the Economics of the Family
Published on 15. March 2010
248 pages
978-0-674-03364-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-03364-1 (9780674033641)
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01/2008
Harvard University Press
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Person
Nancy Folbre is Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Content
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Conceptualizing the Costs of Children 1. Children and the Economy 2. Commitments and Capabilities Part 2: Private Spending on Children in the United States 3. Defining the Costs of Children 4. Children and Family Budgets with Tamara Ohler 5. Children outside the Household 6. Accounting for Family Time with Jayoung Yoon 7. Valuing Family Work Part 3: Public Spending on Children in the United States 8. Subsidizing Parents 9. Public Spending on Children's Education and Health 10. Who Should Pay for the Kids? Notes Index
