Nancy Folbre
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Folbre |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Folbre |
| SIGNATURE | FOLBRE N |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rethinking the Child Care Sector
This paper challenges traditional models of the child care industry by emphasizing the importance of unpaid family work. Time use surveys provide a means of integrating estimates of its market value into regional planning models. These studies suggest that parental “quality” time with children and paid child care are complements, rather than substitutes, for one another. Quantification of the important family work that parents do can strengthen t…
Family Time
The time we have to care for one another, especially for our children and our elderly, is more precious to us than anything else in the world. Yet we have more experience accounting for money than we do for time. In this volume, leading experts in analysis of time use from across the globe explore the interface between time use and family pol
The Invisible Heart
THE INVISIBLE HEART addresses an often-neglected yet basic problem in our society: balancing economic pursuits with care for others, particularly children, the elderly, and the infirm. THE INVISIBLE HEART reinterprets policy issues such as welfare reform, school finance, and progresive taxation, and confronts the challenges of globalization, outlining strategies for developing an economic system that rewards both individual achievment and care fo…
Rethinking the Child Care Sector
This paper challenges traditional models of the child care industry by emphasizing the importance of unpaid family work. Time use surveys provide a means of integrating estimates of its market value into regional planning models. These studies suggest that parental “quality” time with children and paid child care are complements, rather than substitutes, for one another. Quantification of the important family work that parents do can strengthen t…
The Invisible Heart
THE INVISIBLE HEART addresses an often-neglected yet basic problem in our society: balancing economic pursuits with care for others, particularly children, the elderly, and the infirm. THE INVISIBLE HEART reinterprets policy issues such as welfare reform, school finance, and progresive taxation, and confronts the challenges of globalization, outlining strategies for developing an economic system that rewards both individual achievment and care fo…
Family Time
The time we have to care for one another, especially for our children and our elderly, is more precious to us than anything else in the world. Yet we have more experience accounting for money than we do for time. In this volume, leading experts in analysis of time use from across the globe explore the interface between time use and family pol
Rethinking the Child Care Sector
This paper challenges traditional models of the child care industry by emphasizing the importance of unpaid family work. Time use surveys provide a means of integrating estimates of its market value into regional planning models. These studies suggest that parental “quality” time with children and paid child care are complements, rather than substitutes, for one another. Quantification of the important family work that parents do can strengthen t…
Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Économie féministe (2 works) · Feminist economics (2 works) · Gezin (2 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (2 works) · 1980 (1 works) · 1981-2001 (1 works) · 1993-2001 (1 works) · 83.06 feminist economics (1 works)