Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Conceptualizing the Costs of Children

1. Children and the Economy

2. Commitments and Capabilities

Part 2: Private Spending on Children in the United States

3. Defining the Costs of Children

4. Children and Family Budgets
with Tamara Ohler

5. Children outside the Household

6. Accounting for Family Time
with Jayoung Yoon

7. Valuing Family Work

Part 3: Public Spending on Children in the United States

8. Subsidizing Parents

9. Public Spending on Children's Education and Health

10. Who Should Pay for the Kids?

Notes

Index

Nancy Folbre is Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.