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Valuing children :

(Number (ISBN

0674026322

(Number (ISBN

0674033647

(Number (ISBN

0674037022

(Number (ISBN

9780674026322

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9780674033641

(Number (ISBN

9780674037021

Erroneous ISBN

0674047273

Erroneous ISBN

9780674047273

Number

b704951

Title Proper

Valuing children :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

rethinking the economics of the family /

First Statement of Responsibility

Nancy Folbre.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge, Mass. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Harvard University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2008.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (viii, 235 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Series Title

The family and public policy

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-230) and index.

Text of Note

Introduction -- Children and the economy -- Commitments and capabilities -- Defining the costs of children -- Children and family budgets / with Tamara Ohler -- Children outside the household -- Accounting for family time / with Jayoung Yoon -- Valuing family work -- Subsidizing parents -- Public spending on children's education and health -- Who should pay for the kids?

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Publisher's description -- 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. 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. She also emphasizes the need for better accounting of public expenditure on children over the life cycle and describes the need to rethink the very structure and logic of the welfare state. A new institutional structure could promote more cooperative, sustainable, and efficient commitments to the next generation.

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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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JSTOR

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22573/ctvjkz4nr

Title

Valuing children.

International Standard Book Number

0674026322

Child rearing-- Economic aspects-- United States.

Families-- Economic aspects-- United States.

Family allowances-- United States.

Households-- Economic aspects-- United States.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Economics-- Theory.

Child rearing-- Economic aspects.

Erziehung

Familie

Families-- Economic aspects.

FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS-- Alternative Family.

FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS-- Reference.

Family allowances.

Households-- Economic aspects.

Kind

Wirtschaftliche Lage

United States.

USA.

7

7

BUS-- 044000

BUS-- 069030

FAM-- 006000

FAM-- 038000

SOC-- 026010

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Edition

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Book number

Folbre, Nancy.

Date of Transaction

20201207202102.0

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[Book]

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