January 2021 Nonfiction General Titles

Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti


Paperback (Trade paperback US) | Jan 2021 | Princeton University Press | 9780691210162 | 384pp | 203x133mm | GEN | AUD$32.99, NZD$37.99

A Fatherly Top Ten Best Parenting Book of the Decade
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

Love, Money, and Parenting investigates how economic forces shape how parents raise their children. In countries with increasing economic inequality, parents push harder to ensure their children have a path to security and success. In the United States, this force has transformed the hands-off parenting of the 60s and 70s into a frantic, overscheduled activity. Growing inequality has also resulted in an increasing "parenting gap" between richer and poorer families, raising the disturbing prospect of diminished social mobility. Drawing from the experiences of countries of high and low economic inequality, Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti discuss how changes to public policy can contribute to the ideal of equal opportunity for all.