Valuing Children : : Rethinking the Economics of the Family / / Nancy Folbre.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Folbre, Nancy,
• MitwirkendeR: Ohler, Tamara,; Yoon, Jayoung,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The Family and Public Policy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; I. Conceptualizing the Costs of Children --; 1. Children and the Economy --; 2. Commitments and Capabilities --; II. Private Spending on Children in the United States --; 3. Defining the Costs of Children --; 4. Children and Family Budgets --; 5. Children outside the Household --; 6. Accounting for Family Time --; 7. Valuing Family Work --; III. 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674033641; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674033641?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Nancy Folbre.

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.