Abhilasha Srivastava - Dollars & Sense

The Underestimated “Price of Parenting”

Even a low-ball estimate of the cost of time shows just how misleading an estimate based only on money expenditures really is.

Nancy Folbre Sep 9, 2025

September/October 2025

Mamdani Needs to Catch the Value Capture Bus

New York Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani has drawn both praise and sneers for his free bus proposal. As detailed

Polly Cleveland Sep 7, 2025

Left Hook Economics

More Babies or Better Care for Newborns?

Most so-called pronatalist policies seriously underestimate the costs and risks of raising children in today’s economic environment.

Nancy Folbre Sep 2, 2025

ABHILASHA SRIVASTAVA is a development economist interested in race, caste, and gender issues and how these affect and are affected by economic processes.

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Issue 342

The Rocket Science of Sanitation

Understanding the plight of the Indian workers who are not considered workers.

Abhilasha Srivastava May 1, 2019