Read Love Money and Parenting How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids Audible Audio Edition Matthias Doepke Fabrizio Zilibotti Eric Michael Summerer a division of Recorded Books HighBridge Books

Product details Audible Audiobook Listening Length 11 hours and 32 minutes Program Type Audiobook Version Unabridged Publisher HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Audible.com Release Date January 15, 2019 Whispersync for Voice Ready Language English, English ASIN B07MMWS5RD

Love Money and Parenting How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids Audible Audio Edition Matthias Doepke Fabrizio Zilibotti Eric Michael Summerer a division of Recorded Books HighBridge Books Reviews

• This is a fascinating book that I greatly enjoyed reading. It makes a clear and compelling argument and connects it to personal experience as well as data and academic research. The goal of the book is to explain how the choices made by parents depend on their environment. The authors show for example that when inequality is low, then parents are more likely to give their children more freedom, and they impose more constraints and incentives on them when inequality is higher. The book presents a large amount of evidence supporting this argument by looking at changes over time and across countries. The parenting styles described in the book are based on the developmental psychology literature and the authors also discuss the evidence from that literature.
  
  I like how the authors emphasize that we should not assume that parenting styles in earlier decades or in other countries are wrong simply because they differ from what we find optimal. Clearly, parenting differs across time and countries (the authors provide many examples), but that’s also because the environment in which parents make their choices differ. I find this very plausible and witnessed it myself growing up in two different countries and with different families. It’s fascinating to read the many great examples in the book for how the environment affects parenting and how economics helps explain it. I think the book is relevant for virtually everyone, because it helps us understand the choices of our parents, and the own choices as parents. The book is well-written and full of examples, I highly recommend it.
• Unbelievable omission the book is a comprehensive comparison of parenting styles across several countries. It uses parenting styles observed and "developed" by Urie Bronfenbrenner from a 1970s comparison of parenting styles in the US and the USSR. No mention of Bronfenbrenner's name in the index. As far as I can tell, no mention of it is the footnotes. There is no bibliography so it is difficult to tell whether the authors are even aware of this scholar's work. How can they not be? Frustrating and unprofessional.
• Personally, I find the book quite interesting and make me keep on thinking about my daily practices as a new mom of my little boy. Reading the book is a great experience in knowing what are the possible explanations for different parenting styles over time and across countries. Literally, I have no background in economics. But the book is still quite friendly for readers like me and quite convincing. I like the idea of using economic constraints to understand parenting choices. Reading the book reminds myself of some of the exercises done by my parents and also makes me seriously re-evaluate some of my daily actions with my son. This is really an interesting experience.
  
  Anyway, I highly recommend the books to all of you guys in case you would like to understand the relationship between parents and kids deeper.
• This book is helping me to understand things I’ve observed anecdotally living in various countries, as a curious and loving parent, wondering about all the same things as Zillbotti and Doepke. They help explain the increase in parenting intensity from our own childhoods to those of our children. The change has been a dramatic one in terms of investment. They are able to formalize, in a very readable way with anecdotes aplenty, many of what I pondered and discussed over the years with other parents from umpteen cultures, schools and academics. Bravo - look forward to finishing this book and may post some more again!
• The book "Love, Money, and Parenting" by Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti provides economic explanations about the changing of parenting styles over time as well as its cross-country differences. The primary goal is to unveil how socio-economic conditions, for example, income inequality, cultivates the parents-children relationship.
  
  Also, as a mainland Chinese who has lived in Sweden, Denmark, and Switzerland and now moved back to Hong Kong, reading the book reminds me of quite a lot of different daily scenarios of parenting that I met in my life. The reasoning of linking them with economic constraints together with income inequality and the scientific shreds of evidence the authors provided make the story convincing for me.
  
  Also, even though the book, as indicated by the authors, is not another "user guide" of child-rearing, as a new dad, I personally find the book quite useful in terms of a better understanding own parenting choices that looks like instinct at first glance, but turns out to have deeply rooted economic reasoning. As a matter of fact, before reading the book, both my wife and I have taken online tests. The test told that the baby's dad tends to be the permissive type while the mom is the authoritarian type. How should we coordinate with each other to offer a better living environment for our little boy? Any answer to such a question pre-requisites the understanding of what are the forces that shape the child-rearing decisions. And the book provides us with economic reasoning, which turns out to be helpful. Therefore, I do recommend the book to all, especially those young parents.
• This is a very compelling and comprehensive book on parenting style and its determinants in the past, present and future. The book takes the reader on a fascinating journey starting from the authors’ own parenting experience (great anecdotes!) and ending with an outlook how trends in inequality and institutions will shape the parenting of the next generation. The book’s argument is carefully connected to the latest academic literature and vast empirical evidence. At the same time it is very entertaining to read and provides a lot of food for thought.
  
  I read the book while commuting to work and enjoyed every bit of it. Highly recommended to all readers interested in family economics, education, and inequality and to all present and future parents!