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Title The economics of the family / edited by Nancy Folbre
Published Cheltenham, UK ; Brookfield, US : E. Elgar Pub. Ltd., [1996]
©1996

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Description xxvi, 687 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series Elgar reference collection
International library of critical writings in economics ; 64
Elgar reference collection.
International library of critical writings in economics ; 64
Contents Part I. Neoclassical perspectives. A theory of marriage : part I / Gary S. Becker -- Family investments in human capital : earnings of women / Jacob Mincer and Solomon Polachek -- Human capital, effort, and the sexual division of labor ; Altruism in the family and selfishness in the market place / Gary S. Becker. Part II. Institutionalist and feminist perspectives. A transaction cost approach to families and households / Robert A. Pollak -- Hearts and spades : paradigms of household economics / Nancy Folbre -- Trade, merger and employment : economic theory on marriage / Elaine McCrate -- Cooperation, inequality, and the family / Amartya Sen. Part III. Bargaining power models. Marriage and household decision-making : a bargaining analysis / Marilyn Manser and Murray Brown -- The empirical content of Nash-bargained household behavior / Marjorie B. McElroy -- Domestic violence : a nonrandom affair / Helen V. Tauchen, Ann Dryden Witte and Sharon K. Long -- Separate spheres bargaining and the marriage market / Shelly Lundberg and Robert A. Pollak. Part IV. Fertility decline. An economic model of family planning and fertility / T. Paul Schultz -- The mechanisms of demographic change in historical perspective / J.C. Caldwell -- A reformulation of the economic theory of fertility / Gary S. Becker and Robert J. Barro -- Cultural and economics approaches to fertility : proper marriage or mésalliance? / Robert A. Pollak and Susan Cotts Watkins
Part V. Intergenerational transfers. The enforcement of property rights in children, and the marriage contract / Steven N.S. Cheung -- On the economics of intergenerational control / Donald O. Parsons -- The strategic bequest motive / B. Douglas Bernheim, Andrei Shleifer and Lawrence H. Summers -- Rotten kids or manipulative parents : are children old age security in West Kenya? / John Hoddinott. Part VI. Intra-household allocation. The family as the locus of gender, class, and political struggle : the example of housework / Heidi I. Hartmann -- How serious is the neglect of intra-household inequality? / Lawrence Haddad and Ravi Kanbur -- Women's role in maintaining households : family welfare and sexual inequality in Ghana / Cynthia B. Lloyd and Anastasia J. Gage-Brandon -- Intra-household resource allocation : an inferential approach / Duncan Thomas. Part VII. Families and class inequality. The "inheritance of IQ" and the intergenerational reproduction of economic inequality / Samuel Bowles and Valerie I. Nelson -- Human capital and the rise and fall of families / Gary S. Becker and Nigel Tomes -- Intergenerational income mobility in the United States / Gary Solon. Part VIII. Families and the state. The family and the state / Gary S. Becker and Kevin M. Murphy -- Generational accounting : a new approach to understanding the effects of fiscal policy on saving / Alan J. Auerbach, Jagadeesh Gokhale and Laurence J. Kotlikoff -- How should the costs of child rearing be distributed? / Shirley P. Burggraf -- Children as public goods / Nancy Folbre
Analysis Families Economic conditions
Notes (Elgar reference collection)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Birth control.
Families -- Economic aspects.
Family policy.
Finance, Personal.
Households -- Economic aspects.
Home economics.
Sexual division of labor.
Author Folbre, Nancy.
LC no. 95045586
ISBN 1858981913