《Love, Money, and Parenting》简介：

An international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic inequality

Parents everywhere want their children to be happy and do well. Yet how parents seek to achieve this ambition varies enormously. For instance, American and Chinese parents are increasingly authoritative and authoritarian, whereas Scandinavian parents tend to be more permissive. Why? Love, Money, and Parenting investigates how economic forces and growing inequality shape how parents raise their children. From medieval times to the present, and from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Sweden to China and Japan, Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti look at how economic incentives and constraints–such as money, knowledge, and time–influence parenting practices and what is considered good parenting in different countries.

Through personal anecdotes and original research, Doepke and Zilibotti show that in countries with increasing economic inequality, such as the United States, parents push harder to ensure their children have a path to security and success. Economics has transformed the hands-off parenting of the 1960s 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 and fewer opportunities for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. In nations with less economic inequality, such as Sweden, the stakes are less high, and social mobility is not under threat. Doepke and Zilibotti discuss how investments in early childhood development and the design of education systems factor into the parenting equation, and how economics can help shape policies that will contribute to the ideal of equal opportunity for all.

Love, Money, and Parenting presents an engrossing look at the economics of the family in the modern world.

《Love, Money, and Parenting》摘录：

父母通常比孩子更厌恶风险。事实上，我们观察到许多社会中父母越来越倾向保护型。这一态度的缺点在于可能会使孩子变得怯弱、不主动。在这里，塑造激励的作用。在帮派和贩毒者居住的贫困社区，更易接触青少年犯罪的环境可能导致孩子做出毁掉他们生活的选择。而住在中产阶级社区，这样的风险要小得多。在这种更安全的环境中，父母可能更容易让孩子冒险并采取自主行动，而不必担心他们在失败的情况下会遭受严重后果。这种成长经历可能会使得在未来的生活中，孩子对涉及不同类型的风险的选择抱有更积极主动的态度，这些风险包括创新和企业家精神。