Reforming care

Politics and Society

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 373-387

  Folbre, Nancy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Care; Family policy; Feminist theory; Work family

Indexed keywords

EID: 49849084845     PISSN: 00323292     EISSN: 15527514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0032329208320567     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (36)

1. On Australia, see Peter McDonald, " Social Policy Principles Applied to Reform of Gender Egalitarianism in Parenthood and Employment in the United States, " in Gender Egalitarianism: Creating the Conditions for Egalitarian Dual Earner/Dual Caregiver Families, ed. Erik Olin Wright (New York: Verso, forthcoming). on Canada, see Joanna Pachner, " C-Suite Confidential, " National Post, December 4, 2007.
2. Oecd, " Facing the Future: Korea's Family, Pension, and Health Policy Changes, " http://213.253.134.43/oecd/pdfs/browseit/8107061E.PDF ; Priscilla A. Lambert, " The Political Economy of Postwar Family Policy in Japan: Economic Imperatives and Electoral Incentives, " Journal of Japanese Studies 33, no. 1 (2007). 1-28.
3. Susan Himmelweit, " The Prospects for Caring: Economic Theory and Policy Analysis, " Cambridge Journal of Economics 31 (2007). 581-99.
4. Nancy Folbre and Julie Nelson, " For Love or Money? " Journal of Economic Perspectives 14, no. 4 (2002). 123-40.
5. Julie Nelson, " Of Markets and Martyrs: Is It OK to Pay Well for Care? " Feminist Economics 5, no. 3 (1999). 43-59.
6. Anthony Heyes, " The Economics of Vocation or 'Why Is a Badly Paid Nurse a Good Nurse?' " Journal of Health Economics 24, no. 3 (2005). 561-69 ; for a critique, see Julie Nelson and Nancy Folbre, "Why a Well Paid Nurse Is a Better Nurse!" Journal of Nursing Economics 24, no. 3 (May-June 2006). 127-30.
7. H. Elizabeth Peters, Sharon Tennyson, and Frances Woolley, " Household Bargaining and the Purchase of Long Term Care Insurance: My Wife Is My Long Term Care Insurance " ( paper to be presented at the meetings of the Allied Social Science Association, New Orleans, LA, January 2008 ).
8. On declining male marriage premium, see Saul Hoffman and Susan Averett, Women in the Economy (New York: Addison Wesley, 2004). On the care penalty in paid employment, see Michelle Budig, Paula England, and Nancy Folbre, " Wages of Virtue: The Relative Pay of Care Work, " Social Problems 49, no. 4 (2002). 455-73.
9. Lee Badgett, Pamela Davidson, and Nancy Folbre, " Breadwinner Dad, Homemaker Mom: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Changing Gender Norms in the United States, 1977-1998 " (unpublished manuscript, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2004 ).
10. Ann Crittenden, If You've Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything (New York: Gotham, 2005). Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2007 ).
11. A first step would be to apply the kind of fixed-effects statistical analysis developed in Budig et al., "Wages of Virtue," to the European countries that Gornick and Meyers analyze.
12. See, e.g., Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, The Nanny Diaries (New York: St. Martins Griffin, 2003). Allison Pearson, I Don't Know How She Does It ( New York: Anchor, 2003 ).
13. Nancy Folbre, " Nursebots to the Rescue? Immigration, Automation, and Care? " Globalizations 3, no. 3 (September 2006). 367-78.
14. Julie Smith, " Mothers' Milk and Measurement of Economic Output, " Feminist Economics 11 (March 2005). 43-64.
15. Jodi Kantor, " On the Job, Nursing Mothers Find a 2-Class System, " New York Times, September 1, 2006.
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17. Government Accountability Office, Breastfeeding: Some Strategies Used to Market Infant Formula May Discourage Breastfeeding ( Washington, DC: Government Accountability Office, 2006 ).
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19. Richard G. Wilkinson, Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality (New York: Routledge, 1996). on the effect of social and family relationships on health, see Robert M. Sapolsky, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping ( New York: W. H. Freeman, 1998 ).
20. George A. Akerlof, " Men without Children, " Economic Journal 108 (1998). 287-309.
21. Donald T. Rowland, " Historical Trends in Childlessness, " Journal of Family Issues 28, no. 10 (2007). 1311-37.
22. U.S. Census Bureau, Fertility of American Women, Current Population Reports, December 2005.
23. Laura D'Andrea Tyson, " New Clues to the Pay and Leadership Gap, " Business Week, October 27, 2003.
24. Elinor Burkett, The Baby Boon: How Family-Friendly America Cheats the Childless ( New York: Free Press, 2002 ).
25. Barbara Bergmann, " The Economic Risks of Being a Housewife, " American Economic Review 7 (1981). 8-86 ; Folbre and Nelson, " For Love or Money? "; Philip N. Cohen, " The Gender Division of Labor: 'Keeping House' and Occupational Segregation in the United States, " Gender and Society 18, no. 2 (2004). 239-52.
26. Joan Tronto, Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care (New York: Routledge, 1993). Eva Kittay, Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency (New York: Routledge, 1999). Daniel Engster, The Heart of Justice: A Political Theory of Caring ( New York: Oxford University Press, 2007 ).
27. Nancy Folbre, Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008 ).
28. Nancy Folbre, Lois Shaw, and Agneta Stark, eds., Warm Hands in a Cold Age: Gender and Aging (New York: Routledge, 2006). R.B. Saltman, H.F.W. Dubois, and M. Chawla, " The Impact of Aging on Long-Term Care in Europe and Some Potential Policy Responses, " International Journal of Health Care Services 36, no. 4 (2006). 719-46.
29. Miles Corak, Christine Lietz, and Holly Sutherland, " The Impact of Tax and Transfer Systems on Children in the European Union " (Innocenti Working Paper 2005-2006); Horatio Levy, Christine Lietz, and Holly Sutherland, " Strategies to Support Children in the European Union: Recent Tax-Benefit Reforms in Austria, Spain, and the United Kingdom " (EUROMOD Working Paper EM/0/05).
30. Folbre, Valuing Children.
31. Robert Goodin, " Toward a Minimally Presumptuous Social Welfare Policy, " in Arguing for Basic Income, ed. Philippe van Parijs (London: Verso, 1992). 195-214.
32. United Kingdom Labour Party, Social Justice: Strategies for National Renewal (London: Vintage, 1994). Department of Family and Community Services, Participation Support for a More Equitable Society ( Canberra, Australia: Department of Family and Community Services, March 2000 ).
33. Nancy Folbre, " Demanding Quality: Worker/Consumer Coalitions and 'High Road' Strategies in the Care Sector, " Politics & Society 34, no. 1 (2006). 1-21.
34. Helen Haugh and Michael Kitson, " The Third Way and the Third Sector: New Labour's Economic Policy and the Social Economy, " Cambridge Journal of Economics 31 (2007). 973-94.
35. Katherine Abraham and Christopher Mackie, Beyond the Market (Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2004). Nancy Folbre, " Inequality and Time Use in the Household, " in Handbook of Economic Inequality, ed. Timothy Smeeding and Wiemer Salverda ( New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
36. Torben Iverson and Frances Rosenbluth, " The Political Economy of Gender: Explaining Cross-National Variation in the Gender Division of Labor and the Gender Voting Gap, " American Journal of Political Science 50, no. 1 (2006). 1-19.