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Valuing Children
Nancy Folbre
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Description for Valuing Children
Paperback. Challenges the conventional economist's assumption that parents have children for the same reason that they acquire pets - primarily for the pleasure of their company. This book emphasizes the need for better accounting of public expenditure on children over the life cycle. Series: The Family & Public Policy. Num Pages: 248 pages, 7 line illustrations, 14 tables. BIC Classification: JHBK; JKS; JPQB; KCA; KCC; KCP; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
Nancy Folbre challenges the conventional economist's assumption that parents have children for the same reason that they acquire pets--primarily for the pleasure of their company. Children become the workers and taxpayers of the next generation, and "investments" in them offer a significant payback to other participants in the economy.
Yet parents, especially mothers, pay most of the costs. The high price of childrearing pushes many families into poverty, often with adverse consequences for children themselves.
Parents spend time as well as money on children. Yet most estimates of the "cost" of children ignore the value of this time. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
The Family & Public Policy
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674047273
SKU
V9780674047273
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About Nancy Folbre
Nancy Folbre is Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Reviews for Valuing Children
An excellent analysis of economics and family policy. Folbre develops a new way of thinking about the economics of child rearing, that of treating children as an investment rather than a consumption good. Although Folbre characterizes her approach as institutional economics, she has really added to a wide variety of economic fields beyond that.
Sheila Kamerman, Columbia University ... Read more
Sheila Kamerman, Columbia University ... Read more