Curriculum Family, Household & Gender Economics
Family, Household & Gender Economics
The economics of the home - marriage, children, childcare, the gender pay gap, and how families share money, work and decisions.
- The Household as a Little Economy How economists study families as small economies that pool income, produce goods and services at home, and make shared decisions. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Economics of Marriage and Partnership What economists say about why people form partnerships, from shared costs and risk-sharing to changing patterns of who marries whom. 📄 Read-aloud
- What Does It Cost to Raise a Child? How economists estimate the cost of raising a child, including direct spending and the often larger cost of time and lost earnings. 📄 Read-aloud
- Why Families Are Having Fewer Children The economic forces behind falling birth rates around the world, from education and urbanisation to the rising cost of time. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Gender Pay Gap: Measuring and Explaining It What the gender pay gap measures, why it exists, and what Nobel prize-winning research by Claudia Goldin found about its causes. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Economics of Childcare Why childcare is so expensive even though childcare workers are poorly paid, and how public support changes the picture. 📄 Read-aloud
- Family, Household & Gender Economics: Checkpoint 1 Quick checkpoint - five questions on home production, the cost of children, fertility, the pay gap and childcare. 5 questions
- Who Decides? Bargaining Inside the Household Why it matters which family member controls money, and what evidence shows about income paid to mothers versus fathers. 📄 Read-aloud
- Women in the Workforce: A Century of Change How women's paid work has changed over the past century, the forces behind the change, and the U-shaped pattern Claudia Goldin documented. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Economics of Divorce How divorce affects household finances, why the costs often fall unevenly, and what economists learned from changes in divorce laws. 📄 Read-aloud
- Family Support Across Generations How money, time and care flow between parents, adult children and grandparents, and how this differs around the world. 📄 Read-aloud
- Parental Leave: Costs and Benefits How paid parental leave works around the world, what research finds about its effects on parents, children and employers, and why design matters. 📄 Read-aloud
- Dowry and Bride Price: Marriage Payments Around the World Why some societies involve large payments at marriage, what economists have learned about their causes and effects, and how laws have tried to limit them. 📄 Read-aloud
- Son Preference and Missing Women Why preference for sons has skewed sex ratios in India and other countries, the economic reasons behind it, and the policies trying to change it. 📄 Read-aloud