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Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family (The Family and Public Policy)
Valuing Children Rethinking the Economics of the Family - The Family and Public Policy
Author: Nancy Folbre
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 pa...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674047273
ISBN-10: 0674047273
Publication Date: 3/15/2010
Pages: 248
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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