Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family

by Nancy Folbre

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674047273
• ISBN13: 9780674047273
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.5"