Valuing Children - Rethinking the Economics of the Family

Informationen zum Autor Nancy Folbre is Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Folbre, Folbre Nancy, Nancy Folbre
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2010
• EAN: 9780674047273
• ISBN: 978-0-674-04727-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: The Family and Public Policy; The Family and Public Policy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Economics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics, Political Economy, Social welfare and social services, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Sociology: family and relationships, Central / national / federal government policies, Microeconomics, Economic theory and philosophy