Family Economics and Public Policy, 1800s-Present How Laws, Incentives, and Social Programs Drive Family Decision-Making and the US Economy /

• Main Author: Way, Megan McDonald (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in American Economic History,
• Subjects: Economic history.; America-Economic conditions.; Social policy.; Culture-Economic aspects.; Economic History.; North American Economics.; Children, Youth and Family Policy.; Cultural Economics.

This book explores family economic decision-making in the United States from the nineteenth century through present day, specifically looking at the relationship between family resource allocation decisions and government policy. It examines how families have responded to incentives and constraints...