Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family: 5 (The Family and Public Policy) - Tapa blanda

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9780674047273: Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family: 5 (The Family and Public Policy)
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ISBN 10: 0674047273 ISBN 13: 9780674047273
Editorial: Harvard University Press, 2010

Sinopsis

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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Nancy Folbre is Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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Editorial
Harvard University Press
Año de publicación
2010
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ISBN 10 
0674047273
ISBN 13 
9780674047273
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Número de páginas
248
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ISBN 10:  0674026322 ISBN 13:  9780674026322
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