Introduction -- Children and the economy -- Commitments and capabilities -- Defining the costs of children -- Children … and family budgets / with Tamara Ohler -- Children outside the household -- Accounting for family time / with Jayoung Yoon … -- Valuing family work -- Subsidizing parents -- Public spending on children's education and health -- Who should pay for the …

, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children …

state) contributions to children's expenses. Individuals internalize these valuations. I examine a Cournot model of … voluntary contribution to children's goods in a two-adult household, where both spouses may have marginal rates of substitution … interests of parents and those of children. Depending on the marginal rate of substitution between paternal and maternal …