Who should pay? Who should provide? American Childcare Beliefs in Comparative Perspective. A gendered and intergenerational take on the political economy of inequality in advanced democracies.

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Brief Overview

This paper offers new insights into the political economy of inequality in advanced democracies with a framework which links the joint distribution of resources and risks among families to the macro- and micro-politics of childcare in that polity.

Author

• Sophie Jacobson, Yale University