Sirisha Naidu - 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

Sirisha Naidu is an associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She works on issues related to agrarian change, environmental justice and land dispossession, and women’

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Issue 354

India's Farmers' Protests: What's behind one of the largest protests in history?

Farmers blocking one of the blocking main entry-point highways to Delhi in order to voice their opposition to farm laws

Sirisha Naidu May 1, 2021