Doing family: Imprisoned parents as collaborators

Investments into education - Doing as the parents did ∗

Empirical evidence suggests that parents with higher levels of education generally attach a higher importance to the education of their children. This implies an intergenerational chain transmitting the attitude towards the formation of human capital from one generation to the next. We incorporate this intergenerational chain into an OLGmodel with endogenous human capital formation. In absence ...

Doing fatherhood, doing family: contemporary paternal perspectives

Should Computers Function as Collaborators?

This paper discusses the merits of drawing analogies between human-computer interaction and human-human collaboration in the light of the ever-advancing capability of computer systems. We argue that, given the differences in characteristics between humans and computers, suitable analogies should focus on the more basic, fundamental processes that make collaboration efficient, rather than aiming...

Contrasting approaches to 'doing' family meals: a qualitative study of how parents frame children's food preferences.

Family meals, as acts of domestic food provisioning, are shaped by the competing influences of household resources, food preferences and broader cultural norms around dietary practices. The place of children's food tastes in family meal practices is particularly complex. Food tastes stand in a reciprocal relationship with family food practices: being both an influence on and a product of them. ...

Imprisoned in Suspicion

Paranoia is a self-inflicted mental torture of which the sufferer himself is unaware. A paranoiac is perpetually guarded and suspicious, convinced that he is being persecuted by all who inhabit his deluded world.