TY  - BOOK
AU  - Folbre,Nancy
AU  - Ohler,Tamara
AU  - Yoon,Jayoung
TI  - Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family 
T2  - The Family and Public Policy
SN  - 9780674033641
AV  - HQ536 .F65 2008eb
U1  - 306.850973 22
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Child rearing
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Families
KW  - Family allowances
KW  - Households
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674033641?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674033641
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674033641/original
ER  -