The Economics Of The Family

Author : Martin Browning,Pierre-André Chiappori,Yoram Weiss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107728929

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

The family is a complex decision unit in which partners with potentially different objectives make consumption, work and fertility decisions. Couples marry and divorce partly based on their ability to coordinate these activities, which in turn depends on how well they are matched. This book provides a comprehensive, modern and self-contained account of the research in the growing area of family economics. The first half of the book develops several alternative models of family decision making. Particular attention is paid to the collective model and its testable implications. The second half discusses household formation and dissolution and who marries whom. Matching models with and without frictions are analyzed and the important role of within-family transfers is explained. The implications for marriage, divorce and fertility are discussed. The book is intended for graduate students in economics and for researchers in other fields interested in the economic approach to the family.

Author : Nancy Folbre
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674033647

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Valuing Children by Nancy Folbre Pdf

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.

Author : Megan McDonald Way
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1349959081

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Family Economics and Public Policy, 1800s–Present by Megan McDonald Way Pdf

This book explores family economic decision-making in the United States from the nineteenth century through present day, specifically looking at the relationship between family resource allocation decisions and government policy. It examines how families have responded to incentives and constraints established by diverse federal and state policies and laws, including the regulation of marriage and of female labor force participation, child labor and education policies—including segregation—social welfare programs, and more. The goal of this book is to present family economic decisions throughout US history in a way that contextualizes where the US economy and the families that drive it have been. It goes on to discuss the role public policies have played in that journey, where we need to go from here, and how public policies can help us get there. At a time when American families are more complex than ever before, this volume will educate readers on the often unrecognized role that government policies have on our family lives, and the uncelebrated role that family economic decision-making has on the future of the US economy.

Author : Peter Rupert
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780444532633

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Frontiers of Family Economics by Peter Rupert Pdf

Over the years there has been substantial changes in the size, composition, educational level, work activity, and locational choice of families. This book offers an understanding of the forces that have led to the choices and consequent observed changes.

Author : Nancy Folbre
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674263512

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Valuing Children by Nancy Folbre Pdf

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.

Author : Martin Browning,Pierre-André Chiappori,Yoram Weiss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : Nancy Folbre
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015037825935

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The Economics of the Family by Nancy Folbre Pdf

A collection of previously published essays that highlights the historical dialogue between neoclassical and institutionalist approaches to the economics of the family. The volume is divided into eight sections: neoclassical perspectives; institutionalist and feminist perspectives; bargaining power models; fertility decline; intergenerational transfers; intra-household allocation; families and class inequality; and families and the state. The earliest of the 31 essays is Schultz's "An Economic Model of Family Planning and Fertility" (1969); the most recent is Folbre's "Children as Public Goods" (1994). No subject index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Matthias Doepke,Fabrizio Zilibotti
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691210162

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Love, Money, and Parenting by Matthias Doepke,Fabrizio Zilibotti Pdf

Doepke and Zilibotti investigate how economic forces shape how parents raise their children. They show that in countries with increasing economic inequality, such as the United States, parents push harder to ensure their children have a path to security and success. Economics has transformed the hands-off parenting of the 1960s and '70s into a frantic, overscheduled activity. Growing inequality has also resulted in an increasing 'parenting gap' between richer and poorer families, raising the disturbing prospect of diminished social mobility and fewer opportunities for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. The authors discuss how investments in early childhood development and the design of education systems factor into the parenting equation, and how economics can help shape policies that will contribute to the ideal of equal opportunity for all. --From publisher description.

Author : Saul D. Hoffman,Susan L. Averett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781352012019

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Women and the Economy by Saul D. Hoffman,Susan L. Averett Pdf

An analysis of the enormous changes in women's economic lives around the world, from the family to the labour market. Hoffman and Averett examine topics such as the effect of rising women's wages and improved labour market opportunities on marriage, the ways in which more reliable contraception has shaped women's adult lives and careers, and the forces behind the phenomenal rise in women's labour force activity. This fourth edition includes brand new chapters on gender in economics and race and gender in the USA. It incorporates the latest research findings throughout, many of which are featured in helpful call-out boxes, and illustrated with new graphs and figures. This is invaluable reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of economics, development and women's studies. The level of economic analysis is suitable for students with basic economics knowledge. New to this Edition: - New chapters on gender in economics and race and gender in economics - Fully updated with new data, policy examples and a new companion website with lecturer resources - Increased pedagogy, with over 30 new boxes

Author : Alessandro Cigno
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Family demography
ISBN : UCAL:B4372821

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Economics of the Family by Alessandro Cigno Pdf

This up-to-date study on the economics of the family addresses such topical issues as why the birth rate tends to fall as the standard of living rises, why people are marrying less and divorcing more, and why Western populations are getting older. Cigno provides a survey of the most recent literature, and presents its main theoretical results--while offering some new ones--within a simple, unified framework. The book maintains a balance between vigorous theory, intuitive explanation, and discussion of practical implications throughout.

Author : Claudia Goldin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691228662

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Career and Family by Claudia Goldin Pdf

In this book, the author builds on decades of complex research to examine the gender pay gap and the unequal distribution of labor between couples in the home. The author argues that although public and private discourse has brought these concerns to light, the actions taken - such as a single company slapped on the wrist or a few progressive leaders going on paternity leave - are the economic equivalent of tossing a band-aid to someone with cancer. These solutions, the author writes, treat the symptoms and not the disease of gender inequality in the workplace and economy. Here, the author points to data that reveals how the pay gap widens further down the line in women's careers, about 10 to 15 years out, as opposed to those beginning careers after college. She examines five distinct groups of women over the course of the twentieth century: cohorts of women who differ in terms of career, job, marriage, and children, in approximated years of graduation - 1900s, 1920s, 1950s, 1970s, and 1990s - based on various demographic, labor force, and occupational outcomes. The book argues that our entire economy is trapped in an old way of doing business; work structures have not adapted as more women enter the workforce. Gender equality in pay and equity in home and childcare labor are flip sides of the same issue, and the author frames both in the context of a serious empirical exploration that has not yet been put in a long-run historical context. This book offers a deep look into census data, rich information about individual college graduates over their lifetimes, and various records and sources of material to offer a new model to restructure the home and school systems that contribute to the gender pay gap and the quest for both family and career. --

Author : Ram D Singh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429713453

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Economics Of The Family And Farming Systems In Sub-saharan Africa by Ram D Singh Pdf

This book presents an integrated analysis of the dynamics of the economics of households and farm production in the setting of a polygynous family structure and traditional agriculture in sub-Saharan rural Africa. It focuses on some basic facts about poverty among the farm people of rural Africa.

Author : Gary Stanley Becker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Families
ISBN : OCLC:776548348

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A Treatise on the Family by Gary Stanley Becker Pdf

Author : Daniele Checchi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139449373

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The Economics of Education by Daniele Checchi Pdf

In an important contribution to educational policy, Daniele Checchi offers an economic perspective on the demand and supply of education. He explores the reasons why, beyond a certain point, investment in education has not resulted in reductions in social inequalities. Starting with the seminal work of Gary Becker, Checchi provides an extensive survey of the literature on human capital and social capital formation. He draws on individual data on intergenerational transmission of income and education for the USA, Germany and Italy, as well as aggregate data on income and educational inequality for a much wider range of countries. Checchi explores whether resources spent in education are effective in raising students' achievement, as well as analysing alternative ways of financing education. The Economics of Education thus provides the analytical tools necessary to understand the complex relationships between current income inequality, access to education and future inequality.