1 Launching a Cross-Disciplinary and Cross-National Conversation on Engaged Fatherhood -- 2 The Role of Fathers in Child and Family Health -- 3 The Impact of Father’s Health on Reproductive and Infant Health and Development -- 4 The Impact of Fatherhood on Men’s Health and Development -- 5...

Introduction: Current Conditions of Work and Family in Japan -- 1 The Factors of Fertility Decline in Japan -- 2 The Japanese Working Custom and Women’s Employment Participation -- 3 Work and Family in Japan from the Comparative Perspective -- 4 Family Formation and Disparity -- 5 The...

Oft kennt die Gender Debatte nur zwei Lager: Eine Seite, die überzeugt ist, dass wir längst in einer gleichberechtigten Gesellschaft leben oder dass Männer mittlerweile das benachteiligte Geschlecht sind. Und auf der anderen Seite diejenigen, die überall gläserne Decken und...

This book explores family economic decision-making in the United States from the nineteenth century through present day, specifically looking at the relationship between family resource allocation decisions and government policy. It examines how families have responded to incentives and...

1. Introduction: Dynastic Business Families and the “Big Family Management” Research Project -- 2. The Dynastic Business Family as Family, Organisation, and Network -- 3. Six Key Issues and Challenges in Managing Dynastic Business Families -- 4. Committee Structure and Participation...

‘Recently, economists studying wellbeing have widened their lenses beyond income to include wealth. Here, economists Rossi and Sierminska tap new high-quality datasets to assess how wealth and homeownership vary across countries, over time, and among household types. Economists and...

1. Zhen’s Story -- 2. Shun’s Story: Number One Daughter -- 3. Ze’s Story: Husband of First Daughter -- 4. Shi’s Story: Second Daughter -- 5. Hua’s Story: Third Daughter -- 6. Chun’s Story: First Son, Fourth Child -- 7. Xia’s Story: Second Son -- 8. Kai’s Story: Fourth Daughter --...

Part I Perspective on the History of Women and Family in Japanese Economic Development -- 1 The Labour Market and Labour Migration in Small Post Towns in Early Modern Japan: The Relationship between a Town and its Outlying Villages in the Northeastern Domain of Nihonmatsu in the Eighteenth to...

1. The Secrets of Successful Entrepreneurial Families: Insights from the World’s Experts on Multi-Generational Entrepreneurial Families -- Part 1: Characteristics of the Entrepreneurial Family -- 2. Family Capital: The Key to Entrepreneurial and Family Success -- 3: The Essential Role of Trust...

1. Introduction -- 2. Household and Family -- 3. Family: economic, social, and educational functions -- 4. Characteristics of the Chinese family system -- 5. Society and family clans in modern China -- 6. Transformation of family clans in modern China and the rise of family enterprises -- 7. The...