Valuing children: rethinking the economics of the family
Auteur :
Folbre, Nancy
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674047273
Date de publication :
15 mars 2010
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.