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Nancy Folbre
Researcher at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Publications - 147
Citations - 9489
Nancy Folbre is an academic researcher from University of Massachusetts Amherst. The author has contributed to research in topics: Unpaid work & Population. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 138 publications receiving 8902 citations. Previous affiliations of Nancy Folbre include Yale University & Political Economy Research Institute.
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When Does Gender Trump Money? Bargaining and Time in Household Work
TL;DR: This article explored the effect of spouses' contribution to family income on how housework is divided and found that women decrease their housework as their earnings increase, up to the point where both spouses contribute equally to income.
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Who Pays for the Kids?: Gender and the Structures of Constraint
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an alternative analysis, based on individual choices but within interlocking structures of constraint based on gender, age, sex, nation, race and class.
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For Love or Money--Or Both?
Nancy Folbre,Julie A. Nelson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the implications for economic analysis, societal well-being, and public policy of the movement of care services (such as child and elder care) from home to market are explored.
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Wages of Virtue: The Relative Pay of Care Work
TL;DR: Care work pays less than other occupations after controlling for the education and employment experience of the workers, many occupation and industry characteristics, and (via individual fixed effects) unmeasured, stable characteristics of those who hold the jobs.