Thinking Beyond Competition

Selfish reasons to have more kids

Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids: Why Being A Great Parent Id Less Work And More Fun Than You Thought by Bryan Caplan

Book website: here

In the book, economist Bryan Caplan argues that good parenting is easier than most parents think, because many sacrifices and investments that parents make for the sake of their children don’t really have an impact on the children. Thus, parents can relax a bit in their nurture of children. But this also opens up the possibility of having more children.

Videos: Kauffmann Foundation presentation (video).

Blog posts: Blog posts tagged Family Economics at EconLog

1 Comment »

  1. [...] his latest book titled Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, economist Bryan Caplan reviews the current evidence on the role of nature and nurture for what he [...]

    Pingback by The nature-nurture debate: what are the broader implications? « Thinking Beyond Competition — May 4, 2011 @ 10:04 pm


RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

Theme: Shocking Blue Green. Blog at WordPress.com.

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.