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Love, Money, and Parenting

How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids

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Love, Money, and Parenting

De : Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti
Lu par : Eric Michael Summerer
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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 is this?

Through personal anecdotes and original research, Doepke and Zilibotti reveal 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 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.

©2019 Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti (P)2019 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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This book overviews the research on how parenting style and fertility decisions are related to economics — both at the individual and the country level. The authors' thesis is that economics is the primary explanation behind the number of children a couple has AND how the parents treat their children. Before reading, I thought this was crazy. After reading, while I'm not sure economics really is the number one motive, I'm convinced that it's in the top five.

You'll go in skeptical and come out convinced

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