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"Dr. Spock meets Freakonomics. Parenting will never be the same. Forget about inflation and unemployment. Here Gans uses economics and game theory to tackle really important topics, such as toilet training and fussy eaters. Parentonomics lays bare what most sleep-deprived parents only dream about. Gans may not help you become a better parent, but he will help you to stay one step ahead of your kids." - Barry Nalebuff, Milton Steinbach Professor at Yale School of Management, coauthor of Co-Opetition"
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Like any new parent, Joshua Gans felt joy mixed with anxiety upon the birth of his first child. Who was this blanket-swaddled small person and what did she want? Unlike most parents, however, Gans is an economist, and he began to apply the tools of his trade to raising his children. He saw his new life as one big economic management problem - and if economics helped him think about parenting, parenting illuminated certain economic principles. "Parentonomics" is the entertaining, enlightening, and often hilarious fruit of his 'research'. Incentives, Gans shows us, are as risky in parenting as in business. An older sister who is recruited to help toilet train her younger brother for a share in the reward given for each successful visit to the bathroom, for example, could give the trainee drinks of water to make the rewards more frequent. (Economics later offered another, better toilet training solution: outsourcing. For their third child, Gans and his wife put it in the hands of professionals - the day care providers.) Gans gives us the parentonomic view of delivery (if the mother shares her pain by yelling at the father, doesn't it really create more aggregate pain?) , sleep (the screams of a baby are like an offer: 'I'll stop screaming if you give me attention'), food (a question of marketing), travel ('the best thing you can say about traveling with children is that they are worse than baggage'), punishment (and threat credibility), birthday party time management, and more. Parents: if you're reading "Parentonomics" in the presence of other people, you'll be unable to keep yourself from reading the funny parts out loud. And if you're reading it late at night and wake a child with your laughter - well, you'll have some guidelines for negotiating a return to bed. This book contains what every parent needs to know about negotiating, incentives, outsourcing, and other strategies to solve the economic management problem that is parenting.
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It was a month before the due date of Child No. 1 when our obstetrician forecast that our baby was going to be large; definitely over eight pounds. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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It was a month before the due date of Child No. 1 when our obstetrician forecast that our baby was going to be large; definitely over eight pounds. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index
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