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Media, Home and Family





Based on extensive fieldwork, this book examines how parents make decisions regulating media use, and how media practices define contemporary family life.









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Women and the Economy: Family, Work, and Pay (2nd Edition)





Women and the Economy uses the tools of contemporary economics to examine different aspects of women’s lives, from the labor market to family policy and structure. Economic theory is blended with empirical research and policy issues to explore the changes in the lives of American women in the twenty-first century.

Women and the Economyâ€"Introduction; Economics Tools and Economic Thinking; Marriage and the Familyâ€"An Economic Approach; Marriage and the Familyâ€"Economic Issues and Applications; The Economics of Fertility; Nonmarital and Teen Fertility; Women at Work; Women’s Earnings, Occupation, and Educationâ€"An Overview; The Gender Gap in Earnings: Explanations; The Gender Gap in Earnings: Methods and Evidence; Women's Employment and Earnings: Policy; Poverty, Welfare, and Women; Women, Taxes, and Social Security; Family Policy; Women in Developing Countries.

For all readers interested in the effects of rising wages for women, the economic impacts of divorce, the child quantity-quality distinction, marriage subsidies, and the childcare market.









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