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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Family and Public PolicyPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674033641
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.850973 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ536 .F65 2008eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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.
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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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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