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Love, Money, and Parenting - How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids (Hardcover)
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Love, Money, and Parenting - How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids (Hardcover)
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An international and historical look at how parenting choices
change in the face of economic inequality Parents everywhere want
their children to be happy and do well. Yet how parents seek to
achieve this ambition varies enormously. For instance, American and
Chinese parents are increasingly authoritative and authoritarian,
whereas Scandinavian parents tend to be more permissive. Why? Love,
Money, and Parenting investigates how economic forces and growing
inequality shape how parents raise their children. From medieval
times to the present, and from the United States, the United
Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Sweden to China and Japan,
Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti look at how economic
incentives and constraints-such as money, knowledge, and
time-influence parenting practices and what is considered good
parenting in different countries. Through personal anecdotes and
original research, Doepke and Zilibotti show that in countries with
increasing economic inequality, such as the United States, parents
push harder to ensure their children have a path to security and
success. Economics has transformed the hands-off parenting of the
1960s and '70s into a frantic, overscheduled activity. Growing
inequality has also resulted in an increasing "parenting gap"
between richer and poorer families, raising the disturbing prospect
of diminished social mobility and fewer opportunities for children
from disadvantaged backgrounds. In nations with less economic
inequality, such as Sweden, the stakes are less high, and social
mobility is not under threat. Doepke and Zilibotti discuss how
investments in early childhood development and the design of
education systems factor into the parenting equation, and how
economics can help shape policies that will contribute to the ideal
of equal opportunity for all. Love, Money, and Parenting presents
an engrossing look at the economics of the family in the modern
world.
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