Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family

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 co...

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Main Author: Folbre, Nancy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press [2022]
Series:The Family and Public Policy
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Links:https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674033641
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674033641
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674033641
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674033641
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674033641
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674033641
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674033641
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674033641
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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (248 pages)
ISBN:9780674033641
DOI:10.4159/9780674033641