Valuing Children (Family & Public Policy): Rethinking the Economics of the Family: 5 (The Family and Public Policy)

by Nancy Folbre (Author)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $41.39

  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. This book emphasizes the need for better accounting of public expenditure on children over the life cycle.