Valuing Children : : Rethinking the Economics of the Family /

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

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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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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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