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PhD Economics University of Massachusetts Amherst
Bachelors Economics University of Texas at Austin

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According to Wikipedia, Nancy Folbre is an American feminist economist who focuses on economics and the family , non-market work and the economics of care. She is professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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When Does Gender Trump Money? Bargaining and Time in Household Work1 (2003) (1176)
The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values (2001) (747)
Who Pays for the Kids?: Gender and the Structures of Constraint (1994) (571)
For Love or Money--Or Both? (2000) (552)
Wages of Virtue: The Relative Pay of Care Work (2002) (500)
Hearts and spades: Paradigms of household economics (1986) (421)
Measuring Care: Gender, Empowerment, and the Care Economy (2006) (377)
The Cost of Caring (1999) (311)
"Holding hands at midnight": The paradox of caring labor (1995) (278)
Family Time : The Social Organization of Care (2004) (255)
Cleaning house : New perspectives on Households and Economic Development (1986) (237)
The Unproductive Housewife: Her Evolution in Nineteenth-Century Economic Thought (1991) (224)
Assigning care: Gender norms and economic outcomes (1999) (162)
Exploitation Comes Home: A Critique of the Marxian Theory of Family Labour (1982) (154)
Of patriarchy born: the political economy of fertility decisions (1983) (150)
Children as Public Goods (1994) (122)
Who pays for the kids (1994) (122)
Demanding Quality: Worker/Consumer Coalitions and “High Road” Strategies in the Care Sector (2006) (119)
Should Women Care Less? Intrinsic Motivation and Gender Inequality (2012) (116)
By what measure? family time devoted to children in the united states (2005) (115)
Saving social security: A balanced approach (2005) (113)
For Love and Money: Care Provision in the United States (2012) (107)
What is child care? Lessons from time-use surveys of major English-speaking countries (2007) (102)
Household Production in the Philippines: A Non-Neoclassical Approach (1984) (100)
Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family (2008) (94)
Market Opportunities, Genetic Endowments, and Intrafamily Resource Distribution: Comment (1984) (82)
Explorations: Time-use surveys in the south (2008) (74)
Greed, Lust and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas (2009) (73)
Why a well-paid nurse is a better nurse. (2006) (73)
Economics, values, and organization: Did Father know best? Families, markets, and the supply of caring labor (1998) (67)
Who Should Pay for the Kids? (1999) (66)
Gender and economic sociology (2010) (61)
To Honor and Obey: Efficiency, Inequality, and Patriarchal Property Rights (2001) (60)
Reforming Care (2008) (55)
By What Measure? Family Time Devoted to Children in the U.S. (2004) (54)
A theory of the misallocation of time (2004) (54)
Engendering economics: new perspectives on women, work, and demographic change (1998) (52)
For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry In Mexico's Frontier. MARIA PATRICIA FERNANDEZ-KELLY.: Women, Men, and the International Division of Labor. JUNE NASH and MARIA PATRICIA FERNANDEZ-KELLY, eds (1986) (52)
Women's Work and Women's Households: Gender Bias in the U.S. Census (1989) (50)
Involving Dads: Parental Bargaining and Family Well-Being (2002) (49)
The Political Economy of Human Capital (2012) (47)
The Care Economy in Africa: Subsistence Production and Unpaid Care (2014) (47)
The Pauperization of Motherhood: Patriarchy and Public Policy in the United States (1984) (45)
Family Strategy: A Dialogue (1987) (45)
Valuing Unpaid Child Care in the U.S.: A Prototype Satellite Account Using the American Time Use Survey (2016) (39)
Unpaid work and the economy. A gender analysis of the standards of living (2008) (39)
Counting Housework: New Estimates of Real Product in the United States, 1800–1860 (1993) (38)
How Does She Know? Feminist Theories of Gender Bias in Economics (1993) (38)
Women's work in the world economy (1992) (37)
Plant Closings and Their Regulation in Maine, 1971–1982 (1984) (32)
Marriage, Poverty, and Public Policy. A Discussion Paper from the Council on Contemporary Families. (2002) (27)
The Care Penalty and Gender Inequality (2018) (27)
The war on the poor : a defense manual (1996) (26)
Rethinking the Child Care Sector (2006) (25)
The Intergenerational Welfare State (2013) (25)
Women's Employment, Unpaid Work, and Economic Inequality (2013) (24)
Nursebots to the rescue? Immigration, automation, and care (2006) (23)
Revealing Altruism (2004) (23)
Household services and economic growth in the United States, 1870-1930 (1996) (23)
The consequences of economic rhetoric: The rhetoric of self-interest: Ideology of gender in economic theory (1989) (23)
THE WEALTH OF PATRIARCHS - DEERFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, 1760-1840 (1985) (22)
The Future of the Elephant-Bird (1997) (22)
A methodology for revising estimates: female market participation in the U.S. before 1940. (1990) (21)
Reconceptualizing Human Capital (2000) (21)
Essential Workers and Care Penalties in the United States (2020) (21)
Patriarchy in Colonial New England (1980) (21)
The New Field Guide to the U.S. Economy: A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America (1995) (20)
Unpaid Care Work (2012) (19)
Introduction: Gender and Aging (2005) (19)
Developing care : recent research on the care economy and economic development (2018) (18)
Varieties of Patriarchal Capitalism (2009) (18)
The Economics of the Family (1997) (18)
Greed, lust & gender : a history of economic ideas (2009) (14)
Making Do and Getting By: Non‐Market Work and Elderly Women's Standards of Living in the United States (2009) (14)
Saving State U: Why We Must Fix Public Higher Education (2010) (14)
Manifold exploitations: toward an intersectional political economy (2020) (14)
Who Pays for the Kids?: Gender and the Structures of Constraint.@@@The Economic Status of Women Under Capitalism: Institutional Economics and Feminist Theory. (1995) (13)
Introduction - Children and Family Policy: a Feminist Issue (2000) (13)
Time Use and Living Standards (2009) (12)
When a Commodity Is Not Exactly a Commodity (2008) (12)
The Persistence of Patriarchal Capitalism Nancy Folbre (1989) (11)
Inequality and Time Use in the Household (2011) (11)
Explorations Gender and Aging: Cross-National Contrasts (2005) (11)
Do Public Expenditures Improve Child Outcomes in the U.S.? A Comparison Across Fifty States (2003) (11)
Counting on Care Work: Human Infrastructure in Massachusetts (2009) (10)
Are Public Expenditures Associated with Better Child Outcomes in the U.S.? A Comparison across 50 States (2005) (10)
Economic Development and Time Devoted to Direct Unpaid Care Activities: - An Analysis of the Harmonized European Time Use Survey (HETUS) - (2008) (10)
Chicks, Hawks, and Patriarchal Institutions: (2006) (10)
Population Growth and Capitalist Development in Zongolica, Veracruz (1977) (10)
THE UNPRODUCTIVE HOUSEWIFE - HER EVOLUTION IN 19TH-CENTURY ECONOMIC-THOUGHT (1991) (10)
JOB LOSSES IN MAJOR INDUSTRIES - MANPOWER STRATEGY RESPONSES - MCKERSIE,RB, SENGENBERGER,W (1983) (9)
""The Improper Arts": Sex in Classical Political Economy (1992) (9)
Debating Business: Women and Liberalization at the Council on Foreign Relations (2001) (9)
Investment, consumption, or public good? Unpaid work and intra-family transfers in the macro-economy (2017) (9)
Women on Their Own: Global Patterns of Female Headship (2019) (9)
Equivalence scales for extended income in the U.S (2017) (9)
Altruism and beyond. An economic analysis of transfers and exchanges within families and groups - Stark,O (1996) (8)
Who Pays for the Kids? Gender and the Structures of Constraint. (1996) (8)
Analysis: The Feminization of Inequality: Some New Patterns (1988) (7)
Women's empowerment and demographic processes: Mating beyond Cairo (2001) (7)
Women and social security in Latin America, the Caribbean and sub- saharan Africa (1993) (7)
The Multiple Directions of Social Progress: Ways Forward (2018) (6)
Warm hands in cold age : gender and aging (2007) (6)
Care, Inequality, and Policy (2022) (6)
Women’s Informal Market Work in Massachusetts, 1875–1920 (1993) (6)
Sleeping Beauty Awakes: Self-Interest, Feminism, and Fertility in the Early Twentieth Century (2014) (5)
Barbara, the Market, and the State (1998) (5)
The rise and decline of patriarchal capitalism (2013) (5)
Capitalism and the Erosion of Care (2000) (5)
FEMINIST THEORY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY (1994) (4)
An economic analysis of the family (2005) (4)
Endogenous Growth, Population Dynamics, and Economic Structure: Long-Run Macroeconomics When Demography Matters (2021) (4)
Introduction: For Margaret, With Thanks (1996) (4)
Endogenous growth, population dynamics, and returns to scale:: Long-run macroeconomics when demography matters (2019) (4)
Cooperation & Conflict in the Patriarchal Labyrinth (2020) (4)
Women's Employment, Unpaid Work and Economic Wellbeing: A Cross-National Analysis (2010) (3)
Awards and Grants (2008) (3)
Informal employment and non-market work (2020) (3)
JUSTICE, GENDER, AND THE FAMILY - OKIN,SM (1991) (3)
Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women. Claudia Dale GoldinJob Queues, Gender Queues: Explaining Women's Inroads into Male Occupations. Barbara F. Reskin , Patricia A. RoosDoing Comparable Worth: Gender, Class and Pay Equity. Joan Acker (1991) (3)
Gender Inequality, Bargaining, and Pay in Care Services in the United States (2022) (3)
Conceiving the future: Pronatalism, reproduction, and the family in the United States, 1890-1938 (2007) (3)
A field guide to the U.S. economy (1987) (3)
Blowing the Whistle on Poverty Policy (2003) (3)
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FERTILITY DECISIONS (2016) (3)
Women on their own: residential independence in Massachusetts in 1880 (1991) (3)
New Ways to Measure Economic Activity: Breastfeeding as an Economic Indicator (2020) (2)
OUTPUT MEASUREMENT IN THE SERVICE SECTORS - GRILICHES,Z (1994) (2)
Gender and Economic Sociology (WP-03-14) (2003) (2)
Population growth as a deterrent to economic growth: a reappraisal of the evidence. (1981) (2)
Reforming the social family contract: Public support for child rearing in the United States (2004) (2)
Disincentives to Care: A Critique of U.S. Family Policy 1 (2002) (2)
Developing Care (2021) (2)
Who Gets What? Gender Differences in “Spendable” Income (2006) (2)
Women, Care, and the Public Good: A Dialogue (2020) (1)
The Political Economy of Patriarchal Systems (2015) (1)
Nancy Folbre: a Feminist Economist (2012) (1)
Environmental Engineering as Care for Human Welfare and Planetary Health (2022) (1)
Add Gender and Spin: Rethinking Political Coalitions in the U.S. (2005) (1)
The Neglect of Care-Giving (1998) (1)
Race and Gender (2010) (1)
Conceptualizing patriarchal systems (2021) (1)
Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era. Edited by Noralee Frankel and Nancy S. Dye. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1991. Pp. 202. $24.00 (1992) (1)
Imperfectly Rational, Somewhat Economic (1995) (1)
Comments on Tom Weisskopf’s David Gordon Memorial Lecture (2014) (1)
The International Labour Review and gender equality: The importance of women’s unpaid and paid work (2021) (1)
BETTER CHILD-CARE - A NEW POLITICS OF ENTITLEMENT (1988) (1)
A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences. By Alice Kessler-Harris. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1990. Pp. xii, 168. $19.00 (1991) (1)
Patriarchal Social Formations in Zimbabwe (2019) (1)
The Economy Sucks: Why Should Virtue Be Its Own Reward? (2001) (1)
Beyond the clock: Rethinking the meaning of unpaid childcare in the U.S. (2022) (1)
WHITHER FAMILIES - TOWARDS A SOCIALIST-FEMINIST FAMILY POLICY (1988) (1)
Markets, inequality and care in the US (2007) (1)
By Our Sides: The Vital Work of Immigrant Direct Care Workers (2011) (1)
Roemer's Market Socialism: A Feminist Critique (1994) (1)
The Persistence of Patriarchal Power (1994) (0)
Ending Welfare as We Know It (1997) (0)
Not your grandfather's EC 101 (2007) (0)
United States and Canada (1989) (0)
Woman Up: How Feminist Theory Can Strengthen Economics (2013) (0)
FEMINISM AND ANTI-FEMINISM IN EARLY ECONOMIC-THOUGHT - PUJOL,MA (1993) (0)
Web Accessories for Introductory Economics at the University of Massachusetts (1999) (0)
Power to the Piketties (2015) (0)
Radical Offspring (2022) (0)
Equivalence scales for extended income in the U.S (2017) (0)
Who cares? Exploring solutions to women’s double burden : policy brief (2018) (0)
Time, Money, and Inequality (2017) (0)
INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFERS AND THE ORIGINS OF SOCIAL-SECURITY (1987) (0)
Understanding the Gender Gap: An economic history of American women - Goldin, C.D. (1991) (0)
Book Review: Economic and Social Security and Substandard Working Conditions: Plant Closings: Power, Politics, and Workers (1987) (0)
Book Review: Human Resources: Job Losses in Major Industries: Manpower Strategy Responses (1986) (0)
Valuing Children (2010) (0)
The Journey of a Southern Feminist; Close Encounters of Another Kind: Women and Development Economics (2020) (0)
Chapter Eight. Women’s Employment, Unpaid Work, and Economic Inequality (2020) (0)
Thanks to Reviewers (2015) (0)
Endogenous Preferences: The Cultural Consequences of Markets and other Economic Institutions (1998) (0)
Spinning the top: gender, games and macro outcomes (2004) (0)
The challenge of affluence: Self-control and well-being in the United States and Britain since 1950 (2008) (0)
Protecting soldiers and mothers. The political origins of social policy in the United States - Skocpol,T (1995) (0)
PLANT CLOSINGS - POWER, POLITICS, AND WORKERS - ROTHSTEIN,LE (1987) (0)
SEX AND REASON - POSNER,RA (1993) (0)
COLLECTIVE ACTION AND STRUCTURES OF CONSTRAINT (1994) (0)
GENDER, CLASS, RACE, AND REFORM IN THE PROGRESSIVE-ERA - FRANKEL,N, DYE,NS (1992) (0)
Family Work: (2018) (0)
The Child Care Arrangements of Paid Child Care Workers: An Exploration using the SIPP (2013) (0)
Toward a More Careful Future: Thoughts on The Care Manifesto (2022) (0)
Who Pays for Raising the Next Generation of Americans --Women, Men, or the State? ∗ (2002) (0)
THE BOTTOM LINE - BUSINESS TO THE RESCUE (1992) (0)
The Nature of Job Flexibility in Care Work (2013) (0)
Histories of Social Reproduction: Introduction (1994) (0)
Thanks to reviewers (2015) (0)
Spinning the top: gender, competition, and the long-run optimum (2005) (0)
Childcare Arrangements and Family Engagement with Children in the United States (2017) (0)
The Feminist Business (2017) (0)
Care Data Infrastructure: A U.S. Case Study (2023) (0)
The Once (But No Longer) Golden Age of Human Capital (2016) (0)
MEN, WOMEN, AND WORK - CLASS, GENDER, AND PROTEST IN THE NEW-ENGLAND SHOE INDUSTRY, 1780-1910 - BLEWETT,MH (1989) (0)
E XPLORATIONS :T IME -U SE S URVEYS IN T HE S OUTH (2008) (0)
The Production of People by Means of People 1 (2013) (0)
American Economic Association For Love or Money-- Or Both ? (2017) (0)
T O H ONOR AND O BEY: E FFICIENCY, I NEQUALITY, AND P ATRIARCHAL P ROPERTY R IGHTS (2001) (0)
Book reviews (1995) (0)
Book Review: Bobbi Low. 2000. Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior. Princeton University Press, Princeton. Paperback edition. $20.95. (2005) (0)
Telling Fortunes: Feminist Theory and the Future of Political Economy (2022) (0)
A WOMANS WAGE - HISTORICAL MEANINGS AND SOCIAL-CONSEQUENCES - KESSLERHARRIS,A (1991) (0)
Monsters of the Economic: Inequality, Fear, and Loathing in America (2015) (0)
‚ÄúHolding Hands at Midnight‚Äù: Beyond social contract: theorizing agency and relatedness (2003) (0)
Conclusion: The Political Economy Of Family Policy (1994) (0)
Nancy Folbre on Economic Policies to Benefit Women (2021) (0)
WOMENS WORK AND WOMENS HOUSEHOLDS - GENDER BIAS IN THE PRE-1940 UNITED-STATES CENSUSES (1988) (0)

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