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Love, Money, and Parenting

How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids

Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti

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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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Income, Premarital sex, Primary school, School, Welfare state, State school, Helicopter parent, Income distribution, World War II, Economist, Salary, Social status, Kindergarten, Industrialisation, Incentive, Working class, Developmental psychology, Economics, Society, Agriculture, Fertility, Day care, Household, Wealth, The Other Hand, Adult, Middle school, Middle class, Social class, Obedience (human behavior), Economy, Institution, Extracurricular activity, National Higher Education Entrance Examination, Competition, Social mobility, Standard of living, Education, Child mortality, Private school, Corporal punishment, Unemployment, Role model, Trade-off, Family income, Parenting, Economic development, Religiosity, Human capital, Today's Parent, Poverty, Equal opportunity, Teacher, Work ethic, Sibling, Social science, Parenting styles, Child care, Popularity, Preschool, Adoption, Economic growth, Economic inequality, Developed country, Homework, Career, Apprenticeship, Profession, Employment, Gender role