The family is a complex decision unit in which partners with potentially different objectives make consumption, work and fertility decisions. Couples marry and
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 stud
The family is a complex decision unit in which partners with potentially different objectives make consumption, work, and fertility decisions. Couples marry and
Nancy Folbre challenges the conventional economist's assumption that parents have children for the same reason that they acquire pets--primarily for the pleasur
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 lea