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Women and the Economy
This textbook presents a comprehensive analysis of the enormous changes in women’s economic lives around the world, from the family to the labor market. Hoffman and Averett examine a range of fascinating topics such as the effect of rising women’s wages and improved labor market opportunities on marriage, the ways in which more reliable contraception has shaped women’s adult lives and careers, and the forces behind the phenomenal rise in women’s labor force activity. This fourth edition addresses important topics of discussion through brand new chapters on gender in economics and race and gender in the USA. It incorporates the latest research findings throughout, many of which are featured in helpful call-out boxes, and illustrated with new graphs and figures. This is invaluable reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of economics, development and women’s studies. The level of economic analysis is suitable for students with basic economics knowledge.
Up from Dependency
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Women and the Economy
This textbook presents a comprehensive economic analysis of women’s issues and the economic factors that have changed their lives, from marriage and fertility to work and pay. Hoffman and Averett examine topics such as gender wage differentials, changes in marriage markets and fertility, and the rise of women’s labour force activity. It also includes coverage of a wide range of policy issues, from taxes to family policy to microlending. Examples are combined with formal analysis, to give students a firm understanding of this area of economics. This textbook will be invaluable for undergraduate and postgraduate students of economics, development and women’s studies. The level of economic analysis is suitable for students with basic economics knowledge.
Up from Dependency
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On Becoming a Teen Mom
"In 2013, the New York City Public Health Department placed public service announcements on trains and buses and at transportation stops that showed photos of frowning or crying children saying such things as 'I'm twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen' and 'Honestly, Mom ... Chances are he won't stay with you. What happens to me?' Campaigns like this support a public narrative that portrays teen mothers as threatening the moral order, bankrupting state coffers, and causing high rates of poverty, incarceration, and school dropout. These campaigns demonize teen mothers but tell us nothing about their lives before they became pregnant. In this myth-shattering ...
The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy
This collection of essays reviews the key trends, surveys the relevant economic theory and summarizes and critiques the empirical research literature. By providing a view of what we know, what we do not know, and what the critical unanswered questions are, this Handbook provides an examination of the many changes that have occurred in women's economic lives.
Out of Wedlock
Today, one third of all American babies are born to unmarried mothers—a startling statistic that has prompted national concern about the consequences for women, children, and society. Indeed, the debate about welfare and the overhaul of the federal welfare program for single mothers was partially motivated by the desire to reduce out of wedlock births. Although the proportion of births to unwed mothers has stopped climbing for the first time since the 1960s, it has not decreased, and recent trends are too complex to attribute solely to policy interventions. What are these trends and how do they differ across groups? Are they peculiar to the United States, or rooted in more widespread socia...
What Women Want
What Women Want comprehensively analyzes the challenges the feminist movement faces today and puts forward a new policy agenda for women.
The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
This book traces how individuals fare over time in each of the three principal types of welfare state.
Women and the Economy
Hoffman, Averett and Argys' Women and the Economy is the only economics book that provides a broad analysis of the economic issues relating to women, ranging from marriage and family to work and pay, along with coverage of contemporary empirical research and policy issues. Women and the Economy uses contemporary economic theory to analyse various aspects of women's lives, examining labour economics, economics of the family, economics of fertility and gender inequalities. The core market is students on upper-level, optional modules on undergraduate economics courses and the book assumes a basic level of economics. New to this edition: Enhanced discussion of intersectionality More coverage of the childcare market Greater reference to LGBTQ issues Issues of race integrated throughout the text Increased comparative analysis between women in US and women in other industrialized economies New end-of-chapter exercises/problem questions New research findings and relevant emerging policy issues integrated in each chapter
