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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Leontief Prize, Global Development and Environment Institute
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • 1998 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation

Overview

Nancy Folbre is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research predominantly falls within the Social Sciences, with strong emphasis on Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, and General Health Professions.

Their work addresses several main topics that include:

  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Work-Family Balance Challenges
  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment
  • Political Economy and Marxism
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • International Labor and Employment Law

Some of the recent papers authored by Nancy Folbre are:

  • "Essential Workers and Care Penalties in the United States" (2020), published in Feminist Economics
  • "Gender Inequality, Bargaining, and Pay in Care Services in the United States" (2022), published in Industrial and Labor Relations Review
  • "Manifold exploitations: toward an intersectional political economy" (2020), published in Review of Social Economy

Frequent co-authors in their research include Leila Gautham, Kristin Smith, Janet C. Gornick, and Daniel B. Oerther.

Nancy Folbre has published extensively in several venues, with repeated contributions in Feminist Economics, Review of Income and Wealth, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and Review of Social Economy.

Throughout their career, Nancy Folbre has received notable awards such as the Leontief Prize from the Global Development and Environment Institute in 2004, recognition as a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2004, and being named a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Who Pays for the Kids?: Gender and the Structures of Constraint

    Nancy Folbre

  • When Does Gender Trump Money? Bargaining and Time in Household Work

    Michael Bittman;Paula England;Liana Sayer;Liana Sayer;Nancy Folbre

  • The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values

    Nancy Folbre

  • Wages of Virtue: The Relative Pay of Care Work

    Paula England;Michelle Budig;Nancy Folbre

  • For Love or Money--Or Both?

    Nancy Folbre;Julie A. Nelson

  • Measuring Care: Gender, Empowerment, and the Care Economy

    Nancy Folbre

  • Hearts and spades: Paradigms of household economics

    Nancy Folbre

  • The Cost of Caring

    Paula England;Nancy Folbre

  • "Holding hands at midnight": The paradox of caring labor

    Nancy Folbre

  • Children as Public Goods

    Nancy Folbre

  • The Unproductive Housewife: Her Evolution in Nineteenth-Century Economic Thought

    Nancy Folbre

  • Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family

    Nancy Folbre

  • CLEANING HOUSE - NEW PERSPECTIVES ON HOUSEHOLDS AND ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT

    Nancy Folbre

  • Family Time : The Social Organization of Care

    Michael Bittman;Nancy Folbre

  • Assigning care: Gender norms and economic outcomes

    M. V. Lee Badgett;Nancy Folbre

  • Exploitation comes home: a critique of the Marxian theory of family labour

    Nancy Folbre

  • Greed, Lust and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas

    Nancy Folbre

  • Of patriarchy born: the political economy of fertility decisions

    Nancy Folbre

  • By what measure? Family time devoted to children in the United States.

    Nancy Folbre;Jayoung Yoon;Kade Finnoff;Allison Sidle Fuligni

  • Demanding Quality: Worker/Consumer Coalitions and “High Road” Strategies in the Care Sector:

    Nancy Folbre

  • The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued@@@The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values@@@Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do about It

    Viviana A. Zelizer;Ann Crittenden;Nancy Folbre;Joan Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Paula England
Paula England New York University Abu Dhabi
M.V. Lee Badgett
M.V. Lee Badgett University of Massachusetts Amherst
Michael Bittman
Michael Bittman University of New England
Janet C. Gornick
Janet C. Gornick City University of New York
Irwin Garfinkel
Irwin Garfinkel Columbia University
Julie A. Nelson
Julie A. Nelson University of Massachusetts Boston
Douglas A. Wolf
Douglas A. Wolf Syracuse University
George Loewenstein
George Loewenstein Carnegie Mellon University
Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman Princeton University
Robert B. Cialdini
Robert B. Cialdini Arizona State University

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