Economic Analysis Of Families And Society

Author : John F. Ermisch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400880102

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An Economic Analysis of the Family by John F. Ermisch Pdf

What do economists have to say about behavior within the context of the family? This book improves our understanding of how families and markets interact, why important aspects of families have been changing in recent decades, and how families respond to, and are affected by, public policy. It covers a broader range of topics with more consistency than have previous studies, including all major theoretical developments in the field over the past decade. John Ermisch builds his analysis on the premise that the standard analytical methods of microeconomics can help us understand resource allocation and the distribution of welfare within the family. Families are dynamic institutions--and so the author uses these same methods to study family formation and dissolution (including marriage, fertility, and divorce) and household formation, as well as intergenerational transfers, household production and investment, and bargaining between family members. He also shows how economic theories of the family can help guide and structure empirical analyses of demographic and related phenomena, such as labor supply, child support, and returns to education. Examples of studies that apply the theory are provided throughout the book. The most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to an increasingly dynamic area of research, one with important implications for public policy, An Economic Analysis of the Family will be a valuable resource for advanced students of microeconomics and also for students and researchers in sociology, psychology, and other social sciences.

Author : Shinji Yamashige
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9784431559092

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Economic Analysis of Families and Society by Shinji Yamashige Pdf

This book, based on economics and game theory, analyzes the changes that Japan is now facing as a reflection of changes in Japanese families and society. The author presents a simple framework for the structural relationship among markets, communities including families, and the state; and uses it to explain the changes that have occurred in Japanese society. Social changes have created a series of social problems such as population ageing, poverty, and regional disparities, which require changes in public policies. The book provides readers with rich information about the Japanese social security system, social policies and regional policies by explaining why they are developed, how they are designed, and what challenges they face. Readers will find that the transformation of Japanese society is not really a special case but a fairly common one that many developed countries have experienced and many developing countries are going to experience. The book will be useful not only to those who are interested in Japanese society and public policies but also to anyone who is interested in the transformations of families, communities, and roles of the state in a modern market economy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780323899666

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Handbook of the Economics of the Family by Anonim Pdf

Handbook of the Economics of the Family, Volume One includes comprehensive surveys of the current state of the economics literaure in the field, prepared by leading scholars, with a particular empahsis on the most recent developments in each area. Chapters cover Culture and the family; Mating markets; Household decisions and intra-household distributions; The economics of fertility: a new era; Families, labor markets, and policy; Family background, neighborhoods, and intergenerational mobility; The great transition: Kuznets facts for family-economists; An institutional perspective on the economics of the family. An economics approach to changing family arrangements Understanding of inequality and intergenerational mobility Evolution of gender roles within families and across societies

Author : Simon Swain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107025363

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Economy, Family, and Society from Rome to Islam by Simon Swain Pdf

A full edition and study of Bryson's Management of the Estate, edited by a leading expert in both Classics and Arabic literature.

Author : David Cheal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996-06-30
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780313389061

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New Poverty by David Cheal Pdf

Cheal argues that the sociology of poverty has entered a new postmodern phase. The new poverty is about loss of faith—in relationships that were once believed to last a lifetime, and in government programs that we used to think would last for generations. The new poverty is about the economic fall of individuals and countries who used to be affluent and who once dreamed that their affluence would go on forever. It is about the experience of free-falling, without a parachute and without much of a safety net. The new poverty is about people who lose their jobs when their company downsizes. It is about people whose hours of employment are cut in half when the work runs out. And it is about couples who separate, thereby plunging one of them—and probably their children—into a low income level that they had never anticipated. What is new about the new poverty is the sense of surprise—that poverty can hit so suddenly, that people can fall so far before they are caught and lifted up, that the poverty of children still troubles us after a century of progress. The new poverty is about our loss of faith not only in relationships that were once thought to last a lifetime, but also in government programs that we believed would last for generations. Cheal translates the experience of the new poverty into sociological theory and into social statistics. His purpose is to provoke serious, critical reflection about families today and the risks of being poor. An important study for scholars and researchers involved with family issues and social policy.

Author : Martin Browning,Pierre-André Chiappori,Yoram Weiss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521791595

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Economics of the Family by Martin Browning,Pierre-André Chiappori,Yoram Weiss Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive, modern, and self-contained account of the research in the growing area of family economics. It is intended for graduate students in economics and for researchers in other fields interested in the economic approach to the family.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Crops and climate
ISBN : MINN:30000010411696

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Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gary S. Becker
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674252332

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A Treatise on the Family by Gary S. Becker Pdf

Imagine each family as a kind of little factory—a multiperson unit producing meals, health, skills, children, and self-esteem from market goods and the time, skills, and knowledge of its members. This is only one of the remarkable concepts explored by Gary S. Becker in his landmark work on the family. Becker applies economic theory to the most sensitive and fateful personal decisions, such as choosing a spouse or having children. He uses the basic economic assumptions of maximizing behavior, stable preferences, arid equilibria in explicit or implicit markets to analyze the allocation of time to child care as well as to careers, to marriage and divorce in polygynous as well as monogamous societies, to the increase and decrease of wealth from one generation to another. The consideration of the family from this perspective has profound theoretical and practical implications. For example, Becker’s analysis of assortative mating can be used to study matching processes generally. Becker extends the powerful tools of economic analysis to problems once considered the province of the sociologist, the anthropologist, and the historian. The obligation of these scholars to take account of his work thus constitutes an important step in the unification of the social sciences. A Treatise on the Family will have an impact on public policy as well. Becker shows that social welfare programs have significant effects on the allocation of resources within families. For example, social security taxes tend to reduce the amount of resources children give to their aged parents. The implications of these findings are obvious and far-reaching. With the publication of this extraordinary book, the family moves to the forefront of the research agenda in the social sciences.

Author : John Ermisch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1991-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521412439

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Lone Parenthood by John Ermisch Pdf

This 1991 book analyzes the flows into and out of lone parenthood, using demographic and employment histories from a British national survey carried out in 1980. It also studies the lone parents' movements into and out of paid employment, and the effect of welfare benefits on their employment.

Author : Kristin E. Smith,Ann R. Tickamyer
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271048611

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Economic Restructuring and Family Well-being in Rural America by Kristin E. Smith,Ann R. Tickamyer Pdf

"A compilation of policy-relevant research by a multidisciplinary group of scholars on the state of families in rural America in the twenty-first century. Examines the impact of economic restructuring on rural Americans and provides policy recommendations for addressing the challenges they face"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Kevin McQuillan,Zenaida R. Ravanera
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780802086402

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Canada's Changing Families by Kevin McQuillan,Zenaida R. Ravanera Pdf

In recent years, two significant trends have had a substantial impact on Canadian families. First, Canadian families have been dramatically altered by high rates of separation and divorce, declining fertility, greater popularity of alternative family arrangements such as cohabitation, and increasing involvement of women in paid labour. Second, changes occurring in the economy and the larger society have brought new pressures to bear on families. In Canada's Changing Families, editors Kevin McQuillan and Zenaida R. Ravenera explore how these developments have altered family life. Using data collected in recent surveys by Statistics Canada, contributors to this volume illustrate how transformed conditions in the labour market have forced families to alter their routines and the division of responsibilities within the household. At the same time, the government, striving to maintain or increase the competitive position of the economy, has moved to control spending, restrain taxes, and reduce deficits. The result has been new demands on the family to provide or supplement services that might otherwise be provided by the state. Canada's Changing Families is an eye-opening study and one of great contemporary relevance.

Author : Mia Tammelin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319764634

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Family, Work and Well-Being by Mia Tammelin Pdf

This book analyses the current state-of-the-art research on families, working hours and well-being in Europe, addressing both paid and non-paid work from a family perspective, and introducing emerging issues related to working hours and family life. Further, it discusses the implications of these issues for the well-being of individuals and families. Examining topics such as the division of paid and non-paid work within families, flexibility patterns, the 24/7 society, intensification of work, and the implication of mobile technology for work–family relations, it illustrates how the experiences of working families differ depending on their socio-economic status

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on the Use of Economic Evidence to Inform Investments in Children, Youth, and Families
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309440622

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Advancing the Power of Economic Evidence to Inform Investments in Children, Youth, and Families by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on the Use of Economic Evidence to Inform Investments in Children, Youth, and Families Pdf

In recent years, the U.S. federal government has invested approximately $463 billion annually in interventions that affect the overall health and well-being of children and youth, while state and local budgets have devoted almost double that amount. The potential returns on these investments may not only be substantial but also have long-lasting effects for individuals and succeeding generations of their families. Ideally, those tasked with making these investments would have available to them the evidence needed to determine the cost of all required resources to fully implement and sustain each intervention, the expected returns of the investment, to what extent these returns can be measured in monetary or nonmonetary terms, and who will receive the returns and when. As a result of a number of challenges, however, such evidence may not be effectively produced or applied. Low-quality evidence and/or a failure to consider the context in which the evidence will be used may weaken society's ability to invest wisely, and also reduce future demand for this and other types of evidence. Advancing the Power of Economic Evidence to Inform Investments in Children, Youth, and Families highlights the potential for economic evidence to inform investment decisions for interventions that support the overall health and well-being of children, youth, and families. This report describes challenges to the optimal use of economic evidence, and offers recommendations to stakeholders to promote a lasting improvement in its quality, utility, and use.

Author : Richard L. Rudolph
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0853233284

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The European Peasant Family and Society by Richard L. Rudolph Pdf

In recent years the peasant household has become a central focal point of social history. This is true not only because the peasant represents the major element of European society through the nineteenth century, but also because many of the main issues in modern historical debate can be studied within the sphere of the peasant family. This book deals with the European peasant family during the period of transformation from agrarian to industrial society, the time called by some the period of protoindustrialization. The essays in this volume explore some of the major issues concerning the influence of the economy, society and institutions on the peasant household and, conversely, the influence of the peasant household on the outside world. Themes dealt with include the ways in which the physical environment and the economy may make for very different family structures and even affect intra-family relationships; the effects of inheritance, marriage and kinship strategies, as well as social pressure, on peasant family structure and demography; the debate about changing gender roles and status; the debate over the manner and effects of class formation; questions of social and political agency; the nature of gender and parent-child relations; the validity of protoindustrial theory; and the role of peasants in initiating industrialization as consumers, producers and as a labor force. In examining these themes, the essays provide both case studies and innovative analysis by preeminent international scholars in the fields of family and women’s history, economic history and demography.

Author : Paul Close
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1989-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349093373

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Family Divisions and Inequalities in Modern Society by Paul Close Pdf

A collection of essays on the social divisions and inequalities encompassing and pervading family life in modern society. It covers issues at the forefront of current social discourse and presents information and ideas relevant to progressive social policy, administration and change.