Ellen Mutari and Deborah M. Figart

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

Ellen Mutari teaches quantitative reasoning at Richard Stockton College and is a Dollars & Sense Associate. Deborah M. Figart is a professor of economics at Richard Stockton College.

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Issue 237

Finland Experiments With a Six-Hour Work Day

Family Friendly Policy?

Ellen Mutari and Deborah M. Figart Sep 1, 2001